Bug#399439: Perhaps it's time to close

[Gustaf Räntilä]

If there's a custom of closing bugs with reasons like "will not [be]
fix[ed]", then perhaps it's time now, to damp people's expectations. This is
over-clearly not prioritized by the gnome team, and Umran's work is a
complete waste of time and money. Not even on the RoadMap for evince
(covering 2.24)[1] is this even *mentioned*.
I assume this is therefore a dead end and simply will not happen. If it's
post 2.24, then it's perhaps 2009 or 2010 which is like 3-4 yeas after the
work begun, by Umran, and the original poster of this wishlist bug wrote the
report. I'm not sure if there's a "timeout" of wishlist bugs, but if there
is, we're closing in, day by day.

I have to say it's sad that I belong to the minority in the world who thinks
this is an important feature (or explain to me, the complete silence).

Now, if this is not the case, would it be impossible to apply the "patch"
the reporter of this bug was referring to, thereby ignoring the gnome team's
decision to not implement this any year soon?
Or, perhaps no one really cares about this any longer and everyone has
silently been accepting the fact that they have to download the pdf's
separately. Can this be the case? Have we sunk that low?
I do keep my hope, even though it's fading. After all, it's just a matter of
years until we have this rocket science piece of software glue, which seems
to be incredibly hard to write.

I'm hereby looking into the option of implementing this myself. I doubt I'll
have time for it though, so again, closing this bug would probably be the
right thing to do.

Regards,
Gustaf
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