Stephen Glasby <stephen glasby uwa edu au> writes:
Dear Evince developers, Thank you for creating/maintaining some great software! I would like to make a few suggestions. Now that pfd files with hyperlinks are common (e.g. journal articles produced using LaTeX) it is very useful to have a "back button" to return to the position in the article before following the hyperlink (e.g. to view a reference). The evince back button does not do this automatically: by default it gives you a list of pages to go to. Almost all the time the reader will want to go back to the first entry in the list, from where they last were. So this is an annoying extra step. We want to encourage the use of hyperlinks: it make reading articles more efficient. Just clicking the "back button" to go back seems desirable. Presently, the "back button" is not a default -- you have to know to select it. I suggest considering making it a default button; I would also add the "rotate left" and "rotate right" buttons as defaults. These are perhaps the most common actions and there is lots of extra room on the toolbar. The symbol for the "back button" of an arrow (I have seen left and arrows) is inappropriate as the movement in the document can be forwards or backwards depending on the hyperlink. Perhaps a capital B symbol, for Back, is better. When I hover over my back button, I do not get a popup explanatory message as I do with other toolbar buttons. Also the Toolbar Editor on my Redhat Enterprise version of linux does not always work: selecting a symbol does not always place it on the toolbar. I think some of these suggested changes would make evince even better. Many people, like me, use it daily. We would be grateful it were a tad more polished.
I think all the issues mentioned here are already fixed in the current evince version where we have back and forward buttons always visible in the toolbar.
Keep up the excellent work. Best wishes to all, Stephen Glasby http://school.maths.uwa.edu.au/~glasby/ _______________________________________________ evince-list mailing list evince-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
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