Re: [evince] Helping with Evince

[Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof gmail com>]

2014-08-20 16:11 GMT+02:00 Giselle Reis <giselle mnr gmail com>:

You can first start setting up a development environment so that you can contribute. There is an introduction here: https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove

But most importantly you will need to set up jhbuild (https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/JhbuildIntroduction) and learn how to submit patches (https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeLove/SubmittingPatches). 

Once you manage to set up jhbuild and actually build evince from the master branch, you can start looking for bugs to fix.

All bugs related to evince can be found here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=evince&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

And the gnome-love ones should be the easiest to start with: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=keywords%3Agnome-love+product%3A%22evince%22+

​I am going to dive into it. (And become a member of the mailinglist.)
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Feel free to ask questions on IRC or here.

​One thing. With Evince every file is displayed in its own window. Personally I like the tabbed view of Acrobat Reader. (The problem there is you can detach a file, but after a refresh it is merged back into the tabbed view.) Something I would like to do is to make tabbed view possible. Is that doable for a start, or should I first solve some gnome-love bugs?

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof gmail com> wrote:

I tried to ask this on IRC, but got no response. So I try it here also.

​After being a long time being frustrated with Acrobat Reader I opted for another PDF viewer. I choose Evince.

I also wanted for some time to contribute to an Open (or Free) Software project.
So I thought maybe Evince would be a good idea.
I have quit some experience in C++. It has been some years since I used it, so I will be a little rusty at first.
Would there be reasonable simple (but yet also challenging) things to do in Evince (to wet my appetite), or could I better look at another project?​

​By the way: I saw that the Dutch translation is 92% complete. I could help there also.

 

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Cecil Westerhof