On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:06:31AM -0600, reed@reedmedia.net wrote:
> > Just installed evince on a new system (all new packages built).
> 
> Older versions used to just crash when dbus was not running. I would
> consider it a major bug in Evince and IMO it is consistent with many
> other newer Gnome apps. I hope KDE 4 will not have this behaviour as
> well.
> 
> > I don't know much about this. I just want to use the PDF viewer :)
> 
> I found evince to be a notourisly bad PDF viewer. xpdf and epdfview (SVN)
> are much better for my purposes.

I also prefer xpdf. And I packaged and maintain epdfview. I also packaged 
poppler and evince two and a half years ago.

I use different viewers as part of my work I have to submit PDFs for 
printing and like to be able to view in different viewers first.

Anyways, I don't even recall enabling or starting dbus ever on any 
pksgrc-based system and I have been using several versions of evince for a 
long time.

  Jeremy C. Reed