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/ > _______________________________________________ > evince-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list -- Carlos Garcia Campos PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462
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