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Bug 167334 - chm support
chm support
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
: 301995 328614 353839 354616 463788 490306 521300 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-02-14 09:36 UTC by David Makovský (Yakeen)
Modified: 2009-11-02 11:21 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description David Makovský (Yakeen) 2005-02-14 09:36:22 UTC 
It would be nice to integrate also support for viewing chm files.
Good resource page for this topic:
http://htmlhelp.berlios.de/formats/chm.php
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2005-02-15 14:58:10 UTC 
See also: http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/
Comment 2 Bryan W Clark 2005-02-16 20:05:28 UTC 
Hi, thanks for the bug report.  

We had discussed this on the mailing list and decided against implementing this
in Evince.  Instead it was agreed that Yelp would be the optimal application for
viewing this type of file.  So I'm going to close this.

You can take a look at the discussion here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evince-list/2005-January/msg00020.html
Comment 3 Bryan W Clark 2005-04-27 06:39:32 UTC 
*** Bug 301995 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2006-01-25 22:22:41 UTC 
*** Bug 328614 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Carlos Garcia Campos 2006-09-01 13:30:07 UTC 
*** Bug 353839 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Carlos Garcia Campos 2006-09-06 13:49:51 UTC 
*** Bug 354616 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Carlos Garcia Campos 2007-08-06 07:52:57 UTC 
*** Bug 463788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Carlos Garcia Campos 2007-08-06 07:57:11 UTC 
I agree yelp would be the optimal application, however yelp doesn't support it yet and AFAIK there are no plans to support it (correct me if I'm wrong). So maybe, adding support in evince is the only way to have a good CHM reader in GNOME desktop.
Comment 9 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2007-10-26 06:45:40 UTC 
*** Bug 490306 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2008-03-09 07:23:03 UTC 
*** Bug 521300 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Carlos Garcia Campos 2008-03-09 09:29:37 UTC 
Note that evince uses now a plugin system for the backends which means that anybody can write its own backend and use it in evince without modifying nor even recompiling evince.