Evince image viewer cannot view PNG

[Nio Wiklund]

+1

I agree, it should be consistent.

Maybe the main entry should be what is does (and within parenthesis, the
name). But someone has to do it, and it is a lot of tedious work to make
it complete.

Best regards
Nio

On 2013-09-20 18:40, Lars Noodén wrote:
> That's something that could be polished a little.  There are some
> applications that are labeled in the menu by what they do, others by the
> name of the application.  It would be more consistent to go completely
> one way or the other.
> 
> Regards,
> /Lars
> 
> On 09/20/2013 07:37 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>> Ahh,
>>
>> yes, didn't notice that it is called simply "Image Viewer" in the menu.
>> That I never call it that way is my only pathetic defence :) I just double
>> click the file via pcmanfm and it launches :D
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>>
>> On 20 September 2013 17:26, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok.  Thanks.  I was trying to view documents in the PNG format. ;)
>>>
>>> I've now found gpicview in accessories, though not by name.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> /Lars
>>>
>>> On 09/20/2013 07:20 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>>>> Hi Lars,
>>>>
>>>> according to the wiki entry [1]  *Evince* is a document
>>>> viewer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_viewer>
>>>>  for PDF <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format>,
>>>> PostScript<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript>
>>>> , DjVu <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu>,
>>>> TIFF<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format>
>>>> , XPS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_XML_Paper_Specification> and
>>>> DVI<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_independent_file_format>
>>>>
>>>> GpicView is the default image viewer in lubuntu and it opens .png's quite
>>>> happily.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Phill.
>>>> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 20 September 2013 17:08, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> When trying to view a PNG file, Evince chokes:
>>>>>
>>>>>         Unable to open document "file:///home/lars/Pictures/
>>>>>         2013-09-20-181032_1680x1050_scrot.png"
>>>>>
>>>>>         File type PNG image (image/png) is not supported
>>>>>
>>>>> Has this bug already been reported?  The image view should support PNG,
>>>>> since it is a common, open format.   It is also the format used by the
>>>>> built-in screen capture programl, scrot.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, is this version of Evince specific to Lubuntu?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> /Lars