Bug#513614: evince shows thumbnails for files with index

[Michal Suchanek]

On 30/01/2009, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Version: 0.5.3-1
>
>  Hi Michal,
>
>
>  Michal Suchanek wrote:
>  > Evince does by default show thumbnails in the sidebar even if the file has an index.
>  >
>  > There is no obvious way how to change this, and no obvious shortcut for switching the two, either.
>  >
>  > An index is ususally much more helpful than the thumbnails if the file has one.
>
>
> From the upstream changelog:
>
>  2005-09-19  Marco Pesenti Gritti  <mpg at redhat.com>
>
>         * shell/ev-window.c: (update_sidebar_visibility),
>         (setup_sidebar_from_metadata), (ev_window_setup_document),
>         (setup_view_from_metadata):
>
>         Show the index by default when there is one
>
>  The fix will be part of Lenny.
>

Thanks for the quick reply. This should make evince show the wanted
information most of the time.

However, an option to switch between thumbnails and index quickly
would be useful for people who have files that do not work with the
default.

You have to click a dropdown, and select an option. No shortcut for that.

Neither can you make the other behaviour the default (which is
certainly not needed unless you are viewing many broken files - or
searching for a particular figure in several PDFs).

Thanks

Michal