Package: evince Version: 2.24.2-2+b1 Severity: normal When there are no evince instances running, invoking "evince FILE" will spawn a new evince, and wait for its window to be closed before returning control to the invoker.
When there is an evince instance already running, invoking "evince FILE" returns immediately. This breaks console applications, like mutt, which rely on the returning executable to understand that the viewing of FILE is over (and hence the temporary file, if this is the case, can be deleted). I understand that this is because evince reuses processes and "attach" to the pre-existing process if there is one. But still the invoking client can be made to wait instead of quitting, maybe with an additional command line flag that can be declared for the evince instance in mailcap? Otherwise as a mailcap reader for PDF, evince is pretty broken at the moment, at least for apps like mutt. Cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages evince depends on: ii gconf2 2.26.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii gnome-icon-theme 2.24.0-4 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii libatk1.0-0 1.24.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdjvulibre21 3.5.21-3 Runtime support for the DjVu image ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-8 GCC support library ii libgconf2-4 2.26.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 2.26.0-4 GNOME keyring services library ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libkpathsea4 2007.dfsg.2-6 TeX Live: path search library for ii libpango1.0-0 1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpoppler-glib4 0.10.6-1 PDF rendering library (GLib-based ii libsm6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Session Management library ii libspectre1 0.2.2.ds-1+b2 Library for rendering Postscript d ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtiff4 3.8.2-11 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-6 2:1.2.1-1 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii shared-mime-info 0.60-2 FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages evince recommends: ii dbus-x11 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii gvfs 1.0.3-4 userspace virtual filesystem - ser Versions of packages evince suggests: ii nautilus 2.24.2-3+b1 file manager and graphical shell f pn poppler-data <none> (no description available) ii unrar 1:3.8.5-2 Unarchiver for .rar files (non-fre -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
