Bug#451498: should open file before returning when evince already running
Johannes Berg
johannes at sipsolutions.net
Fri Nov 16 10:18:52 UTC 2007
Package: evince
Version: 2.20.1-1
Severity: wishlist
When evince is already displaying some document, it will, when
called as "evince document" return quickly and instruct the
running instance of evince to open the given document. This
sometimes interacts badly with scripts that delete the document
right after evince has returned.
It would be good to make evince wait until the other instance
has opened the document (un)successfully and return an status
code indicating this condition to ease integration into scripts
that display documents.
Alternatively, a --disable-factory option like gnome-terminal
has could be added for such use cases although the former is
IMHO much preferable.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc2-g41aa1d66-dirty (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii ghostscript [gs-es 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-2 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.20.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gs-esp 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-2 Transitional package
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.20.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.20.0-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.7-0exp8 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 3.5.19-3 Runtime support for the DjVu image
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.91-1 generic font configuration library
ii libgconf2-4 2.20.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 2.20.1-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.20.0-3 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkpathsea4 2007.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: path search library for
ii libnautilus-extens 2.20.0-1 libraries for nautilus components
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.19.0-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpoppler-glib2 0.6.1-1 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 4.2.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.3.2-1+b1 X11 Composite extension library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.1-3 X11 damaged region extension libra
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7 compression library - runtime
evince recommends no packages.
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