[Bug 14282] Checking for index presence when opening documents

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------- Additional Comments From vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr  2005-09-01 17:23 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152659 upstream is about keeping the
> setting.

I clicked on this link but the bug there is hardly relevant to evince it seems...

> For the mode, that's not because you don't use something 

Hold on, of course I use the thumnail view, when it is APPROPRIATE, that is when
viewing document that have a dozen pages or so.

> that other people have the same usecase, 
> your comments that tend to deny usecase of other
> people have a goal?

Are you really trying to tell me that if you have to navigate in a 350 datasheet
(which is what I have to do right now), you (or anyone) can (would sanely want
to) do it using thumbnails instead of the index ?!! Show me. No please don't,
you have more interesting/urgent to do on Breezy I am sure.
Of course I am not denying any use case. But here I think it's not about use
case or user preference, it's just about plain common sense. On a same level,
what if Yelp had no index and all help pages were merged, and you had to check
thousands of pages one by one until you find the 2 lines of help you were
looking for ? This what you telling me ! :-/
Anyway, I don't care how others navigate large documents, however it would be
nice if we had an option to make evince behave the way the user would like it to
behave. In my (and only mine it seems) case, I would set it to display
thumbnails by default, unless the documents contains an index and counts more
than X (say 20, or make that configurable) pages. Even if it's hidden in Gconf.

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