Re: [evince] Toolbar bug

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

El Miércoles 27 de noviembre de 2013 15:00, A. van Roggen <vanroggen a gmail com> escribió:

I am running evince (and can switch to evince -gtk) on a PC with Linux
> Debian-testing.  The innards are working fine [ as usual, during a large
> number of updates even during my heaviest use as editor in chief, it has never
> failed in contrast with some commercial products ].  The version I run comes
> from   evince_3.8.3-2_amd64.deb (etc).
>
>
> The current problem is related to the toolbar.  In the previous version, the
> toolbar could be modified easily and the menu or icon readily shifted or
> deleted in favor of a differing menu.  With this last update I have not been
> able to find the way to modify the Toolbar appearance. 
>
>
> There is an item "save current settings as default" via the 'gear' icon on the
> right-hand side, but none corresponding to "edit the toolbar".  Even the man
> page does not indicate how to perform the task, and I also have not found the
> description in your web site <http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/>.
>
>
> Please update the man page to indicate how to modify the toolbar.
> Thanking you in advance for this, and above all for the maintenance of this
> excellent viewer,


Hi A. van Roggen!,

In Evince 3.8 the toolbar was redesigned following the general guidelines of GNOME 3. In the migration all 
the customization code, which is not trivial, was not able to be reused in the new design. In fact, the 
toolbar needs more work in order to accomodate headerbars (https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/HeaderBars).


It is true that, according to the user feedback, the customized toolbar was unknown or not used by most of 
our users. In fact, only three users, including you and me, have raised this issue. At this moment, the 
customization of the toolbar is not in the radar of the developers (all we are volunteers), but at least the 
door is not close so far to make it happen.


There is an open bug about this:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692969

Cheers,

    -- Juanjo Marin