Bug#521931: evince: ignores multiple keypresses in presentation mode

[Patrik Fimml]

Package: evince
Version: 2.22.2-4
Severity: wishlist

With recent versions, evince introduced the new "feature" of blocking
multiple successive keypresses in presentation mode. In my opionion,
this behaviour is a major pain.

Of course I can see what this behaviour aims at, preventing people from
unintentionally skipping over multiple slides. At least for me, however,
that's a really rare thing, I know that I'm supposed to release the
space bar again. And after all, there's a "back" button/keybinding too!

On the other hand, it's not the first time I find myself rehearsing or
skipping through a presentation. As an example, take a presentation
created by LaTeX-beamer, where each "overlay" is one page in the PDF, so
one "slide" can spread over multiple PDF pages.

I would like to either see this behaviour removed entirely again, as I
think it is very confusing when a keypress doesn't trigger any action.
Another solution would be a configuration option or at least a gconf
key.

Kind regards,
Patrik

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.24.0-7          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.24.0-2          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.24.1-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.24.1-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.9-4             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.12-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.80-3            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdjvulibre21         3.5.21-3          Runtime support for the DjVu image
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.3-3         GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4            2.24.0-7          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.3-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.18.4-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.24.1-2          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0            2.24.1-2          The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.24.1-1          The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.24.0-2        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.14.7-4+b1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                2:1.0.5-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkpathsea4           2007.dfsg.2-4     TeX Live: path search library for 
ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.20.0-7          libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.17-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.22.4-2          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpoppler-glib3       0.8.7-1           PDF rendering library (GLib-based 
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.0-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libspectre1            0.2.2.ds-1+b2     Library for rendering Postscript d
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.3-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4               3.8.2-11          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2-1           X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                2.7.3.dfsg-1      GNOME XML library
ii  shared-mime-info       0.30-2            FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.12-1   simple interprocess messaging syst

Versions of packages evince suggests:
pn  poppler-data                  <none>     (no description available)
ii  unrar                         1:3.8.5-1  Unarchiver for .rar files (non-fre

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