Evince image viewer cannot view PNG

Phill Whiteside PhillW at Ubuntu.com
Fri Sep 20 17:32:12 UTC 2013


Maybe something we can look into for the 14.04. We'd need to check with
Julien as to what work would need doing. I think it does make sense to have
'what' they do listed in the Menu area as opposed to the application name.

Regards,

Phill.


On 20 September 2013 18:24, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:

> Right.  It should be all one way or another.  The mpaint part, for
> example, is not needed.  If it is to be by what the application does,
> then there is still some tidying to do.  There are some applications
> that are refered to only by name.  Audacious, GNOME Mplayer, Xfburn,
> PCManFM, AbiWord, Gnumeric, LXTerminal and a few others are refered to
> by name.
>
> Regards,
> /Lars
>
> On 09/20/2013 08:19 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> > Well,
> >
> > it is a matter of not confusing people... Would a new comer to lubuntu
> know
> > what gpicview was? Or, indeed, would they care? That it is called Image
> > Viewer does make it clear what it does. But, then we have the entry
> > "mtpaint Graphic Editor"... does it need the mtpaint part, or would it
> > better called "Graphics Editor" or even "Image Editor" so as it ties in
> > with "Image Viewer"?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phill.
> >
> >
> > On 20 September 2013 17:49, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> +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
> >>
> >>
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