Hello,
One thing that just drives me nuts about evince is that when you open a
file, it starts at the beginning. This should only happen the first time
you open the file, at least in my perfect world. I'm willing to
implement it myself but the source tree is very intimidating. What I was
thinking looks kinda like this:
You open a file, say ldd3.pdf. Evince looks in
~/.gnome2/evince/saved_locations to see if there is an entry for
ldd3.pdf. If there is not, the document is opened at the beginning. If
there *is* an entry, evince goes ahead and scrolls to that location (or
whatever else there is to implement it). When you close evince, the
location is saved to that file.
I'm not set on that location for storage, I don't use gnome (just parts
of it), and that was the directory I found on my box that stored evince
settings. I thought about storing the whole path to the file, but I
often move documents around, and the name usually remains
constant. Another possibility is using a hash of the document as the key
instead of the name, which seems like a better option to me. I've been
browsing around the bugzilla looking for stuff related, but didn't find
much. I see references to a feature like this but nothing substantial.
Whether or not you people take it into main I'll be writing it for my own use,
so what I really want to know is
1. What do you guys recommend for the key-value store's location and what
should I use as the key -- path, name, or hash?
2. Where should I start looking to implement this feature?
3. Do you (the maintainers) want this pushed back? If so I'll gladly open
a bug report with my (eventual) patches.
Thank you for your time, and for a great program
--
Corey Richardson
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves"
-- Abraham Lincoln
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