[Bug 576669] Re: Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats
** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576669 Title: Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/576669/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 576669] Re: Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats
** Changed in: evince Status: New => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576669 Title: Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/576669/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 576669] Re: Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats
** Changed in: evince Importance: Unknown = Wishlist -- Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576669 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 576669] Re: Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats
it could be both ways, there's an upstream report asking for support for ODF and MSO formats on evince here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584081 ; linking that for now. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #584081 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584081 ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Wishlist ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged ** Also affects: evince via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584081 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576669 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 576669] Re: Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats
** Changed in: evince Status: Unknown = New -- Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576669 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 576669] Re: Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats
OK, good point. I agree that the name Document Viewer is too generic. It also appears in the title bar of the window, making things difficult for new users when reporting a bug using ubuntu-bug. One has to select About from the Help menu to see Evince mentioned a couple of times. KDE avoids this by calling their PDF/Postscript viewer Okular and of course Adobe uses the name Adobe Reader. The last time I checked Knoppix was using the LXDE desktop with xpdf. xpdf is probably a self-explanatory name, but even if it's not it's a lot less misleading than Document Viewer. Using the name Evince in both the window title and the Open With context menu seems like a good solution to me. Having Evince open files created by Microsoft Office and OpenOffice and KOffice and Abiword would be really cool, but would take a lot longer to implement, no to mention that I'd rather have a few different programs that each do a few things really well rather than one program that does everything badly. To refer to your description above, we don't really want users to expect Evince to open their jpg file. Nor do we want people to try to watch their DVD's or mangage their music collection with their web browser. So probably a paper cut, as you said. -- Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576669 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 576669] Re: Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats
Then that behaviour is wrong... Either the context menus need to change, or evince needs to be able to handle documents. Under the Open With option for any file, evince appears simply as Document Viewer, not PDF Viewer, or TIFF Viewer, or Impress Viewer. Simply Document Viewer. This is overly confusing and degrades User Experience. So, the menus need to change some way (maybe to Evince Viewer) or the program needs to be enhanced to actually handle the generic document instead of subset of some documents Perhaps this is more of a papercut than anything, but it IS definitely misleading to the user. Heck, I've been involved with Linux since the mid '90s and I was confused by Document Viewer. Imagine what that will be like for the new user who suddenly decides that Ubuntu can't open his documents when he selects Document Viewer from the Open With menu. There are occasions where one does not want to wait for the overhead of loading a full Office Suite just to quickly glance over a document. Not to mention on light-weight systems (e.g. netbooks) where the amount of time to open OpenOffice just to quickly glance at some document is more noticeable. It's the same as opening image files with Gimp instead of Eye of Gnome (listed in Open With as Image Viewer). I wouldn't use Gimp just to get a good look at a jpg as there's just too much overhead and lag time from click to usable, even on my system with a quad core i7 and 4GB ram... ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = New -- Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576669 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 576669] Re: Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats
Evince is primarily intended as viewer and printer for PDF documents and Postscript documents. It also handles a few other things, such as DVI documents, DjVu documents, TIFF documents and somewhat suprisingly, Impress (presentation) slides. For odt, ods, rtf, xls and doc files I recommend that you use OpenOffice. If you want you can also use OpenOffice to convert these files to PDF. ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576669 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 576669] Re: Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47963628/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: KernLog.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47963629/KernLog.txt ** Attachment added: RelatedPackageVersions.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47963630/RelatedPackageVersions.txt -- Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576669 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
