Bug#474208: evince: draws its window partly offscreen

[Vincent Bernat]

Package: evince
Version: 2.20.2-1+b1
Severity: minor

Hi!

When opening a PDF, evince tries to smartly place its window. The
result is most of the time disastrous. I have always to move and
resize the window to be able to view the PDF.

This is annoying for me but it is disappointing for some people. For
example, on some setups, evince appears in full screen but in fact its
window height is greater than screen height. When scrolling, we are
unable to see the bottom of a PDF unless we resize the window (which
is difficult when the bottom of the window is not visible) or use full
screen function (from the window manager or from evince).

If the code managing evince window size and position cannot be fixed,
it should be dropped: the window manager does a far better job for
window size and position.

Thanks.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  ghostscript-x [gs-esp] 8.62.dfsg.1-2     The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.22.0-1          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-1          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.4.14-1          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.1.20-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.74-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdjvulibre21         3.5.20-6          Runtime support for the DjVu image
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.2-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.22.0-2          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         1:2.22.0-2        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.9-2          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.1-2     TeX Live: path search library for 
ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.20.0-3          libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.12-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.0-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpoppler-glib2       0.6.4-1           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             4.3.0-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4               3.8.2-8           Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                2.6.31.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime

evince recommends no packages.

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