Not so informative titles for PDF files in beagle search

Bug #80944 reported by Vincenzo Ciancia
4
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beagle (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Kevin Kubasik

Bug Description

Binary package hint: beagle

From what I can observe in beagle search results, it seems that pdf files contain metadata such as the title of the document. However, I see that many pdfs around have a wrong title, often with numbers or dates. Sometimes the file name is much more informative. I use beagle every day and my work would be much harder without it, and this has become a serious usability problem. The file name (without the path) should be displayed in the search results list, and not only in the part of the window displaying the properties of the selected files. If this is not the case, I have to click on each "problematic" pdf to see the file name. I think this applies to every file that has metadata: metadata matters, of course, but the file name is still used as an important source of information, since we access every day our files using file managers.

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Kevin Kubasik (kkubasik) wrote :

Unfortunetly, this really isn't a bug, most applications default pdf titles to the file name, if you really want, you can file a bug upstream, but since theres no way to really tell when we have a good pdf title and a bad pdf title, were kinda just stuck.

Changed in beagle:
assignee: nobody → kkubasik
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote :

This is a problem also for .doc or other tagged formats. Why not showing both the file name and the title? Ok will open a bug upstream with the latter proposal.

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