I'm thinking about writing a pdf viewer (based on the mupdf library) that is more advanced and faster and more user-friendly than BePDF. But since now my free-time is very little I will have to neglect other duties for doing this, and that's why I make the poll, because I want to know first if it has sense to spend time on writing that pdf viewer.

I see the interest for a new pdf viewer is nearly 0.
What other software you would like to have?

Hi,

well, there are a lot of stuff, that would be important for *me*, but every user in different needs...

off-topic:
I'm hardly waiting to use HAIKU as main OS day to day here at work. A few things hardly missing:
- a working vnc-viewer (the available one from BeOS crashes, recompiling and bug hunting seems to be needed),
- using web+ (via proxy-settings an other few glitches)
- samba and nfs

on-topic:
In case of PDF:
I've been using goBe productive and the pdf-printer on BeOS/Zeta and i've been very, very happy with that combination about ~10 years.
I also used BeTeX a lot. Also a very good solution on BeOS.
Unfortunately, Haiku doesn't support TeX afair.
So, on BeGeistert meeting in october 2009 a developer (jan__64) has been so kind to have a look of how are the chances to port TeX libraries and stuff, and while we had the sources of BeTeX, he recompiled that software.
Porting of TeX stuff failed, caused by only 2 or 3 libs, as far as i remember.

jan__64 became quiet after that meeting for personal reasons, so his main project (yab) and the stuff around BeTeX isn't developed further atm.

So, i for one would be very happy to have a working BeTeX here for doing a lot of documentation at work.
But, as mentioned, that is only my point of view.

greets,
prOSy
[German Be User Group]

cipri wrote:


I will support this idea but I would have new MAME emulator for Haiku - then I 'll can build home media center on Haiku OS. Who next?

Yes. I would also love to have TeX on haiku together with LyX. Michael compiled Lyx 2.0 on haiku, so I hope that he will also try to fix BeTex or to port TexLive. I would like more to spend time writing an application tthat has a GUI, but it's indeed a good idea, if michael doesnt want to do it. But just if there is indeed enough interest. And somehow I guess there are even less people interested in TeX than in an pdfviewer/editor.

Why not Poppler?