Re: One window again

["Vovo ^^" <vovozito gmail com>]

I think as stated in:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/principles-simplicity.html.en,
one of gnome applications goals is to be kept simple:

"GNOME understands that usability is about creating software that is
easy for everyone to use, not about piling on features."

2009/3/20 Patrick Lam <prof lam gmail com>:
> 2009/3/20 Wouter Bolsterlee <wbolster gnome org>:
>> 2009-03-19 klockan 18:44 skrev Juhana Sadeharju:
>>> Evince is not simple because it has this 100+ windows
>>> clutter problem. The problem is huge. It takes 10 minutes
>>> before any document can be read if I open tens of docs.
>>
>> I am really sorry, but I really do not understand what the point is of
>> having "100+ documents" open. For me, that translates to pulling half my
>> book collection from the shelf and trying to open ALL books on my desk at
>> the SAME time. Totally unusable, of course.
>
> While I appreciate all your work on evince, I find it annoying how
> evince is totally non-configurable and how evince thinks it knows best
> about what behaviours to support.

It's not totally non-configurable, it just hasn't this "multiple
document in one window" feature.

One window per document model works fine for the majority of users.

> I would find it totally useful to have 100 documents open at once.

I believe most of them will not open even 5 documents at the same time.

> Then I'd be able to close files as I finish processing them. For
> instance, I had 95 PDFs (assignment submissions) that I needed to
> print this week. I had to use the command line to print them. It was
> annoying, especially since printing them from the command line somehow
> resulted in getting multiple copies of a lot of them when the print
> job restarted.

Evince is a document viewer, not a "multiple document printing tool".

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Jader H. Silva