Stephen Glasby <[email protected]> writes:

> Dear Evince developers,
>
> Thank you for creating/maintaining some great software!
>
> I would like to make a few suggestions.
> Now that pfd files with hyperlinks are common (e.g. journal
> articles produced using LaTeX) it is very useful to have a
> "back button" to return to the position in the article before
> following the hyperlink (e.g. to view a reference). The evince
> back button does not do this automatically: by default it gives
> you a list of pages to go to. Almost all the time the reader will
> want to go back to the first entry in the list, from where they last were.
> So this is an annoying extra step. We want to encourage the use
> of hyperlinks: it make reading articles more efficient. Just clicking
> the "back button" to go back seems desirable.
>
> Presently, the "back button" is not a default -- you have to know to select 
> it.
> I suggest considering making it a default button; I would also add the
> "rotate left" and "rotate right" buttons as defaults. These are perhaps the
> most common actions and there is lots of extra room on the toolbar.
>
> The symbol for the "back button" of an arrow (I have seen left and arrows)
> is inappropriate as the movement in the document can be forwards or
> backwards depending on the hyperlink. Perhaps a capital B symbol, for Back,
> is better.
>
> When I hover over my back button, I do not get a popup explanatory message
> as I do with other toolbar buttons. Also the Toolbar Editor on my Redhat 
> Enterprise
> version of linux does  not always work: selecting a symbol does not always
> place it on the toolbar.
>
> I think some of these suggested changes would make evince even better.
> Many people, like me, use it daily. We would be grateful it were a tad more 
> polished.

I think all the issues mentioned here are already fixed in the current
evince version where we have back and forward buttons always visible in
the toolbar.

> Keep up the excellent work.
>
> Best wishes to all,
> Stephen Glasby
> http://school.maths.uwa.edu.au/~glasby/
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