Bug#587152: evince: needs to stop resizing its window

[Arno Schuring]

Package: evince
Version: 2.30.1-3
Severity: normal

Every new file I open with evince causes the program to resize its window to
way beyond the size of my screen. What's worse, it does the resize *after*
it has been placed by my window manager (e17, fwiw), completely defeating
the intelligent placement performed by the WM. As a regular recurring example:
evince tells the WM that its window size is (around) 400x200 pixels, and gets
placed in the lower right corner accordingly. Then, evince opens the file and
resizes its window, placing most of the content (and the resize handles)
outside of the screen's visible area.

I use a dual-monitor setup with non-identical resolutions, maybe that's what's
tripping up evince. But I fail to see the logic of the automatic resize, and
it is not uncommon for evince to resize itself beyond 2000 pixels wide or 1700
pixels high (or both). If I want a full-screen window, I can do it myself. And
with a screen size of 2360x1920, I never want full-screen windows, especially
not a window that covers both of my monitors (excuse the rant).

Another feature I could live without is evince remembering the location and
window size of every single PDF file I open. Does anyone know where this
information is stored, so I can purge it?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (300, 'squeeze'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc6 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  evince-common           2.30.1-3         Document (postscript, pdf) viewer 
ii  gconf2                  2.28.1-3         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme        2.30.3-1         GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.30.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.11.1-3         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.10-4         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.86-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevince2              2.30.1-3         Document (postscript, pdf) renderi
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.28.1-3         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.1-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0       2.30.1-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.20.1-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.6-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extension1  2.30.1-1         libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.0-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                 2.7.7.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  shared-mime-info        0.71-3           FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gvfs                          1.6.2-1    userspace virtual filesystem - ser

Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii  nautilus                      2.30.1-1   file manager and graphical shell f
pn  poppler-data                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  unrar                         <none>     (no description available)

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