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Idea #21395: Merge Evince and Eog into a single application.

Written by leandromartinez98 the 10 Sep 09 at 17:58. Related project: Evince Document Viewer. Status: New
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Evince and Eog are two programs to view files. Their difference is small in terms of looks. Evince can already open many figure files, but doesn't have the "Next" and "Previous" options and the zoom buttons. Adding these features to Evince would make Eog useless.
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Solution #1: Add the few missing functionalities to Evince
Written by leandromartinez98 the 10 Sep 09 at 17:58.

By adding the capability of openning multiple doccuments at once without openning multiple windows and adding a few buttons, Evince would do everything Eog does, thus making Eog useless.
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Solution #2: quick look
Written by yzarc the 11 Sep 09 at 13:53.
add "quick look" like feature to ubuntu.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovj06TNRCMc

sometimes we just wanna know what there is inside a file. it's half done here http://jordihp.deviantart.com/art/Gloobus-Preview-0-03-2-122054947
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Solution #3: Common GUI for all viewers and many backends for rendering files
Written by adisk the 16 Sep 09 at 16:01.
Common GUI for all viewers and
many different backends for rendering files.

GUI like evince.

Backends:
1. *.so libraries.
2. executables with control via pipe or socket.

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Ssdg wrote on the 10 Sep 09 at 21:22
Unix's philosophy is "Do ONE thing and DO IT GOOD" showing PDFs and images are different things. for example, showing every PDFs in a directory and change from one to another isn't usefull. but you should go from one page to another in a PDF...

There is a lot of other differences. Maybe we should keep PDFs and Images in differents apps.

andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 11 Sep 09 at 02:18
Well, actually, the UNIX philosophy is closer to "Do one thing and do it well," but you were very close.

And if you have a lot of related PDFs, like class notes, it can be very useful to quickly change between PDFs as well as advance the pages easily. The question is if we have enough users that would like that specific functionality to warrant implementing it. I think we do.

mikaelstaldal wrote on the 11 Sep 09 at 09:14
This is not a good idea. PDFs usually have multiple pages per file, images (almost) never have.

So the UIs should be different. In the PDF viewer it should be easy to scroll and switch between pages (in the same file). In the image viewer it should be easy to switch between different images (each one in its own file).

That said, I do not oppose to making it easier to handle several PDF files in the PDF viewer, as long as that doesn't make it harder to switch between pages in the same PDF file (which is the most important use case). But please keep image viewer and PDF viewer as separate applications.

Darwin Survivor wrote on the 11 Sep 09 at 10:42
I see no reason to combine these applications. This would be the equivalent of combining gedit and gnumeric. 2 completely different applications for dealing with 2 completely different files.

rakudave wrote on the 12 Sep 09 at 00:22
No. I think Apples Preview sucks, as it tries to do exactly what you suggest, but fails. Therefore, we shouldn't make the same mistake.

leandromartinez98 wrote on the 12 Sep 09 at 13:52

I'm suprised by the fact that some people thinks that the applications do two "completely different things". Evince already open many images files anyway...

I many times want to see the first page of many pdfs I've downloaded. If I try to open multiple files on evince I get multiple windows, which is very annoying. Maybe at least adding tabs to evince?

I will post this idea instead, then.

leandromartinez98 wrote on the 12 Sep 09 at 13:58

Here it is:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21412/

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