Bug 244151

Summary:	"Asymptote" uses wrong viewer defaults
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joachim Frieben <jfrieben>
Component:	asymptote	Assignee:	Jose Pedro Oliveira <jose.p.oliveira.oss>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	7
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	1.29-3	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2007-06-17 15:37:55 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Joachim Frieben 2007-06-14 06:37:26 UTC

Description of problem:
When using "asymptote" in interactive mode, it wants to use "acroread"
for displaying "PDF" files (e.g. when typing "help") and "gv" for
displaying "EPS" files rendered by itself.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
asymptote-1.29-1.fc7

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch "asymptote" interactive session.
2. Type "help".
3. Create new figure.
  
Actual results:
The help file is displayed by "acroread", the "PS" file does not get
displayed because "gv" is not installed.

Expected results:
The different files are displayed using the "F7" default viewer which is
"evince" for both document types.

Additional info:
By setting both "ASYMPTOTE_PSVIEWER" and "ASYMPTOTE_PDFVIEWER" to "evince",
the correct behaviour is achieved. However, this setting should be the
default one, especially when "gv" is a deprecated application, and
"acroread" is not even open source.

Comment 1 Jose Pedro Oliveira 2007-06-16 20:40:01 UTC

I believe this patch will solve the problem:

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diff -ruN asymptote-1.29-orig/settings.cc asymptote-1.29/settings.cc
--- asymptote-1.29-orig/settings.cc     2007-05-19 18:25:56.000000000 +0100
+++ asymptote-1.29/settings.cc  2007-06-16 21:16:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@
 bool msdos=false;
 const char *HOME="HOME";
 const char pathSeparator=':';
-string defaultPSViewer="gv";
+string defaultPSViewer="evince";
 #ifdef __APPLE__
 string defaultPDFViewer="open";
 #else  
-string defaultPDFViewer="acroread";
+string defaultPDFViewer="evince";
 #endif  
 string defaultGhostscript="gs";
 string defaultDisplay="display";
-----------

If everything goes according to the plan I will push a new release tomorrow.

jpo

Comment 2 Jose Pedro Oliveira 2007-06-17 15:37:55 UTC

asymptote 1.30 has already been built (for FC-6, F-7, and devel) and should
start appearing soon in the mirrors (already being pushed for rawhide; no ETA
for FC-6 and F-7).

Please re-open this ticket if the problem persists.

jpo