Re: Initial comments

[Justin Ross <justin ross gmail com>]

This question, and some of the questions along the lines of "what
formats will evince support", make me think about my "two modes".

So, in one mode, I'm browsing/scanning/searching for information "out
there".  For this I typically use a web browser, and I use navigation
history extensively.  Notably, I don't care whether the content I'm
scanning is a pdf, ppt, or html file.  I pretty much just want it all
to fit in the browsing regime.  I get annoyed when I'm popped out of
browser-land just because the file in question is a pdf.

In the other mode, I'm reading something I keep closer to me, for
returning to.  In this mode, I don't care about navigation history
much.  I do care about document structure more.  Just like the first
mode, I don't really care whether it's a pdf, ppt, or html file.

Being king of my own imagination, I like to pretend that mode B is
evince's domain.  If I were king, I'd make my minions fix my browser
to integrate pdf and ppt viewing directly into the browsing UI, thus
eliminating the annoyances of mode A.  IMO, overloading evince 
(evince the UI) to do both A and B is just the easiest, not the best
choice.

Justin

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:34:37 +0100, Nikolai Weibull
<mailing-lists evince rawuncut elitemail org> wrote:
> * Marco Pesenti Gritti (Jan 27, 2005 20:30):
> > > I was interested in removing the Back/Forward buttons as well and
> > > just going with the Up/Down buttons on the left hand side.  The
> > > back/forward seems to be a less than useful feature and takes up
> > > quite a bit of space.  Really we want searching to be really good
> > > and then people can use that to navigate quickly.
> 
> > Now that you made me implement session history? Aaaargh ;)
> 
> > (FWIW I found these buttons quite confusing when I first seen them in
> > gpdf)
> 
> I think that we might as well go with the "browser" metaphor here, where
> there are history buttons, but not necessarily up/down buttons.  What do
> you think?  (I rarely, if ever, use either...),
>         nikolai
> 
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