Ubuntu
evince package

should show a throbber or progress indicator while loading

Bug #273611 reported by magicus
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evince
Fix Released
Medium
evince (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

When loading a large PDF, the only feedback given is "Loading". After a few seconds with no visible activity, you easily begin to mistrust this and think that the application have hanged.

I'd like to see a moving throbber or similar visual indication of activity while loading/rendering a PDF.

Even better would be a progress bar, showing how much is left. It doesn't even have to be perfect (I realize the theoretical difficulties in forecasting the rendering time).

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I'm using Kubuntu Hardy.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 23 16:49:36 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/evince
Revision history for this message
magicus (mag-icus) wrote :
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in evince:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554440

Changed in evince:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: New → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evince:
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evince:
status: New → Invalid
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evince:
status: Invalid → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evince:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in evince:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package evince - 2.25.4-0ubuntu1

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evince (2.25.4-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    New Features and UI Improvements:
    - Show progress information when loading/saving remote files
      (lp: #273611)
    - Remember page setup options (lp: #224882)
    - Show a confirmation dialog when there are pending print jobs
      while closing the main window (lp: #139907)
    - Show progress information when printing (lp: #178437)
    - Add document URI to properties page
    Bug fixes:
    - Bump glib requirement to fix build with older versions
    - Fix mime type handling
    - Fix saving images to remote locations
    - Do not try to jump to the location of the find result for every match, but
      only for the first one. It makes searching really faster.
    - Fix zip mime-type in comics backend
    - Fix several memory leaks
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated build requirement

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:56:51 +0100

Changed in evince:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evince:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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