Debian Bug report logs - #434224
evince: rotate should be in 'view' menu

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <rkrishnan.debian@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: evince: rotate should be in 'view' menu

Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:57:21 +0530 (IST)

Package: evince
Version: 0.8.3-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

This is mainly for the upstream, not a debian-specific wishlist. I
guess debian-bugs will eventually reach the upstream, so filing it
here.

The "rotate" is currently on "edit" menu item. It is natural to
expect this in the "view" menu. 

Regards
Ramakrishnan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  gconf2                  2.18.0.1-3       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme        2.18.0-3         GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gs                      8.56.dfsg.1-1.1  Transitional package
ii  gs-gpl [gs]             8.56.dfsg.1-1.1  The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.18.0-2         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0            2.18.0-2         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0          2.18.0-5         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                   2.6-2            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.4.10-1+b2      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.1.1-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.74-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdjvulibre15          3.5.19-2         Runtime support for the DjVu image
ii  libfontconfig1          2.4.2-1.2        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.18.0.1-3       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.1-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.12.12-1+b1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0       0.8.1-2          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0             2.18.0-4         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.14.0-3         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0            2.18.1-2         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0          1:2.18.1-3       GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.10.13-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                 1:1.0.3-2        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62               6b-13            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkpathsea4            2007-12          TeX Live: path search library for 
ii  libnautilus-extension1  2.18.1-3+b1      libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2               1:2.14.7-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.16.4-2         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-2   PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler-glib1        0.5.4-6          PDF rendering library (GLib-based 
ii  libpopt0                1.10-3           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                  2:1.0.3-1+b1     X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6              4.2-20070712-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4                3.8.2-7          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.8-2        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3              1:4.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.29.dfsg-1    GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2              2:1.2.1-1        X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.2-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

evince recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at 434224@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>

To: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <rkrishnan.debian@gmail.com>, 434224@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#434224: evince: rotate should be in 'view' menu

Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:41:43 +0200

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On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 18:57 +0530, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote:
> This is mainly for the upstream, not a debian-specific wishlist. I
> guess debian-bugs will eventually reach the upstream, so filing it
> here.
> 
> The "rotate" is currently on "edit" menu item. It is natural to
> expect this in the "view" menu. 

Hi,

The rationale for placing rotate in the edit menu is explained here;

        Here's what I think we should do.  Place the Rotate items in the Edit menu. 
        There's no standard HIG placement for this anyway, but that doesn't matter since
        I have good reasoning for doing this.  
        
        In our blue sky future we'd like to remember the rotation of the document and
        redo that same rotation when you reopen the document by saving it as meta-data
        of some kind.  Even if this is a per page thing we'd like to save it so the user
        doesn't have to do the same rotation everytime they open the document.  Now
        since we're effectively editing the document (even if we're not actually
        modifying the file, since it doesn't really matter to the person) we can drop
        the rotation items in the Edit menu.  
        
        This evens out our View and Edit menu sizes and give better relation to what
        you're actually doing.  Plus EOG has been doing this for years so it's kind of a
        GNOME defacto standard anyway.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168896#c11

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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Message #15 received at 434224@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>

To: 434224@bugs.debian.org, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <rkrishnan.debian@gmail.com>

Subject: I agree with the reporter

Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:54:57 +0100

Hi,

I do not know how to explain, but I agree with the reporter: even if it 
is not a standard place for Rotate, I strongly feel that it belongs 
naturally to the View menu...

In fact, evince is a VIEWER, and actions which affect the view, like 
Rotate, fit inside the View menu...

Finally, if Edit contains actions that "edit" the document, then all the 
Go menu items should be moved to Edit; the same for most of View menu 
items (zoom in/out), which are remembered between sessions.

Cheers,
-- 
Eugen Dedu

Message #26 received at 434224@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colan Schwartz <colan.schwartz@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca>

To: 434224@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Keep it under Edit if it's actually modifying the file

Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:21:04 -0400

I discovered this issue because I tried Edit -> Rotate Right, saved the
PDF, reopened it, and then realized that the change didn't persist.

If an operation exists under the Edit menu, it should actually modify
the document.

So there should only be two options:
(1) Move it to the View menu, and don't modify it.
(2) Keep it in the Edit menu, and actually modify it.

Message #31 received at 434224-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Pedro Beja <althaser@gmail.com>

To: 434224-done@bugs.debian.org

Cc: rkrishnan.debian@gmail.com, sa <sa@whiz.se>, "eugen.dedu" <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>, colan.schwartz@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca

Subject: Closing #434224 - evince: rotate should be in 'view' menu

Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:32:24 +0100

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version: 3.13.92-1

this is an old bug.

I'm closing this bug now since it seems to be fixed.

If you can still reproduce it feel free to reopen and provide more info.

thanks
regards
althaser

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