Re: [evince] Naming of PDF's in Titlebar and Panel List

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: Michael Freeman <mikefreeman1972 gmail com>
> Para: evince-list gnome org
> CC: 
> Enviado: jueves 19 de Mayo de 2011 22:36
> Asunto: [evince] Naming of PDF's in Titlebar and Panel List
> 
> Evince Team,
> 
>     Is there a way to change what is displayed in the window titlebar and the 
> window list on the panel? For example, I often have to work with multiple 
> documents simultaneously, which can be difficult to keep straight as it is. But 
> to make matters worse, it seems that Evince uses some sort of meta data name for 
> what is displayed in the titlebar and on the panel. Unfortunately, most of the 
> documents I have to work with have random letters/numbers (I guess it's some 
> sort of filing number) in their meta data name. So all I see in the panel is a 
> bunch of numbers and letters instead of recognizable titles. These documents do, 
> however, have nice recognizable names for their filenames. The file named 
> "Mike's Document.pdf" might show "B8276C" in the 
> titlebar on Evince, for example, because the meta data name is B8276C.



We already show either the filename or the filename + the title when the title is set... 

I guess you're using an old Evince version. Las patch for this was made by Evince developer
José Aliste in december 2010.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=5f03f96e78d00dd631bbf21225721a0f1dc2d353


>     So, that said, is there a way to switch what's being displayed in those 
> areas to the document's filename instead of the name in their meta data? 
> This would be much more manageable. Adobe Acrobat Reader uses the filename on 
> the titlebar/panel display. And it allows tabs instead of tons of individual 
> windows. But its tab handling is bad, and it is very slow, so I'd rather use 
> Evince. Sadly, this naming issue (and to a certain extent the lack of tab 
> support) stands in my way of that. Perhaps a setting that could swap between the 
> two naming methods might help, as a suggestion.
> 


FYI, Rodrigo Moya, a GNOME developer, has submitted a patch to poppler for 
setting metadata. It hasn't been accepted yet

More info here: http://blogs.gnome.org/rodrigo/2011/05/06/fix-pdfs-hack/ ;

I hope this helps you,

  -- Juanjo Marin