Bug#807319: gnome-documents: enable additional book types

Jason Crain jason at inspiresomeone.us
Sun Oct 16 04:22:58 UTC 2016


Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/740970

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 04:47:37PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Attached is a patch which widens the supported format for GNOME Books.
> This patch adds/enables document type PDF and  COLLECTIONS.
> 
> This is my first time dealing with Javascript so I'm not much versed
> with it. I don't know what COLLECTIONS here is being referred to. But my
> patch will generalize it for all types.
> 
> I think it should be okay to have the book types (PDF and Collection)
> show up under Books too, than not showing/rendering anything at all.

I doubt upstream would accept a patch like that, since I think the idea
for PDFs is that they want a way to manually tag PDFs as being books so
receipts and other things don't show up in gnome books.  There's some
discussion about that in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/704316.



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