Bug#779907: evince: enable libgnome-desktop post-jessie

Iain Lane laney at debian.org
Fri Mar 6 09:46:59 UTC 2015


On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 09:20:45AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Package: evince
> Version: 3.14.1-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> Iain Lane enabled libgnome-desktop support in evince/unstable svn
> after 3.14.1-1 was uploaded. I reverted that change to be able to
> commit 3.14.1-2 with #768133 fixed, without introducing unapproved
> changes during the freeze.
> 
> I assume there was some reason to want libgnome-desktop support, although
> I don't know what concrete feature(s) this enables. After jessie,
> someone (Iain?) should probably reinstate that change; I'm filing it
> as a bug to keep it "on the radar".

Sure.

I'll try to remember, but if I forget someone else should feel free to
do the same.

FWIW, the feature is that it enables evince to use the GNOME thumbnail
cache in its 'recent' view instead of computing them each time.

  https://developer.gnome.org/gnome-desktop3/stable/GnomeDesktopThumbnailFactory.html

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
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