I think as stated in: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/principles-simplicity.html.en, one of gnome applications goals is to be kept simple:
"GNOME understands that usability is about creating software that is easy for everyone to use, not about piling on features." 2009/3/20 Patrick Lam <[email protected]>: > 2009/3/20 Wouter Bolsterlee <[email protected]>: >> 2009-03-19 klockan 18:44 skrev Juhana Sadeharju: >>> Evince is not simple because it has this 100+ windows >>> clutter problem. The problem is huge. It takes 10 minutes >>> before any document can be read if I open tens of docs. >> >> I am really sorry, but I really do not understand what the point is of >> having "100+ documents" open. For me, that translates to pulling half my >> book collection from the shelf and trying to open ALL books on my desk at >> the SAME time. Totally unusable, of course. > > While I appreciate all your work on evince, I find it annoying how > evince is totally non-configurable and how evince thinks it knows best > about what behaviours to support. It's not totally non-configurable, it just hasn't this "multiple document in one window" feature. One window per document model works fine for the majority of users. > I would find it totally useful to have 100 documents open at once. I believe most of them will not open even 5 documents at the same time. > Then I'd be able to close files as I finish processing them. For > instance, I had 95 PDFs (assignment submissions) that I needed to > print this week. I had to use the command line to print them. It was > annoying, especially since printing them from the command line somehow > resulted in getting multiple copies of a lot of them when the print > job restarted. Evince is a document viewer, not a "multiple document printing tool". > pat > _______________________________________________ > Evince-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list Jader H. Silva _______________________________________________ Evince-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
