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 Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
