Re: Atril and D-BUS

[Ikumi Keita]

Hi Tassilo,

>>>>> Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
>> . I don't understand the detail of this form, but shouldn't this
>> "FindDocument" be something different, most probably "SyncView",
>> looking at `TeX-evince-sync-view-1'?

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> So the problem is that we cannot test for the availability of the
> SyncView method when we haven't a window with its session bus already.
> It's kind of a hen and egg problem.

OMG! 😵😞

> I'm not actually sure how to handle that.  Basically we could catch the
> error in TeX-evince-sync-view-1 when calling SyncView and somehow fall
> back to the command line version.  Of course, that's kind of ugly.  I
> don't know how common it is to have an Atril/Evince/Xreader with all
> DBUS whistles but synctex disabled.  Apparently nobody complained in for
> years.

I remember that FreeBSD atril did support forward search 3-4 years ago.
Hmm, I don't have a good idea to cover such situation on AUCTeX, either.

I'll personally build my atril with synctex enabled.

Thanks,
Ikumi Keita
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