Hi Hannes, Hi Henner, Hi all,
* Hannes Hauswedell hannes@fsfe.org [2009-02-03 15:25:25 +0100]:
Other readers listed don't provide the named feature either.
I have spoken with mk. We should develop a policy, which readers we recommend for "average users" but we should not exclude certain readers on a random basis.
More on that later, from mk.
I spoke with Hannes and Henner on that subject. What do you think about the following proposal. We list all PDF readers, which are Free Software and "actively maintained". How Free Software is defined should be know to all here. For "Actively mainted" we should find a good criteria (e.g. answeres on bug reports, latest commits in the past year...).
On the list we remove the footnote "[2] Additional software may be required to use this program." But we add a paragraph that for "normal users" (find a better term) the pdfreaders team suggest the software which has a green background in the table. We add that green background for the most convinient readers like evience + okular for Free operating systems, skim for MacOSx, and sumatrapdf for Windows. And things like okular for windows, yap, etc. will not get that green background.
Would that be a good policy?
Best wishes, Matthias