<snipped> Dear all,
I snipped the above as it just confuses rather than makes life easy. There are two use-cases, a newcomer who comes to one of the distributions and desktops and wants to use it. S/he has no idea which applications are good with x or y because for her/him the applications themselves are unknown. So today, s/he could have gimp for pdf where probably evince or atril or qpdview would be better, but that means that person should have that knowledge which s/he won't and there is nothing within the system which tells her/him what to pick and choose. And I'm not even going into the different desktops because that's another 'fun' topic altogether :) There is another part as well, most file formats have a version number and many a time some applications are able to get more than others. To take the same example, pdf 2.0 is the latest version from upstream - https://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/version But most tools in Debian are good for till 1.4 at least till 2017, when I last checked - 1/- 1/- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/360860/what-is-the-highest-format-version-of-pdf-that-free-software-can-produce So if a new user bought a pdf 2.0 s/he will think the system is trash because none of the software can read it. I do hope that the situation has improved since then but that means both upstream work as well as downstream work (packaging). Let's say there are a couple of packages from around 10-15 packages which can read pdf 2.0 or even create, how do we let the user know about it. Today s/he has just no clue. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com E493 D466 6D67 59F5 1FD0 930F 870E 9A5B 5869 609C
