Bug#427575: status update?

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

martin f krafft wrote:
> What's the status update on this bug?

It's stalled waiting on upstream, see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497388

> Why is evince trying to be so
> smart and does things differently if another process is already
> running. I find it annoying that evince cannot open the same file
> twice. I find it very annoying that evince returns to the shell even
> though the reason why I called it (open a window to let me view the
> PDF) is not complete (I have not yet closed the window).
> 
> If this is evince's understanding of usability, maybe it could grow
> an option that would make it more compatible with the way Unix
> programs have worked for decades and it was possible to wait for
> a process to exit to know that now the task was over too?

That's what the upstream bug report suggests in case changing it completely to
wait for the process to finish is not wanted.

Cheers,
Emilio

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