Bug#787896: evince: won't resize down even as far as half screen width on 1024x768 display

[Peter T. Breuer]

Package: evince
Version: 3.14.1-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

post-jessie evince has become unusable for me since it won't resize down
to occupy only half the screen (leaving the other half to an editor!).
Somebody amid general UI vandalism has stopped its screen width being
horizontally shrinkable down to below the width of the toolbar, taking
2/3 of a display width, and which is full of large icons supplying no
functionality that keys don't supply plus large helpings of empty space.

Fortunately, qpdfview seems to fill its shoes.  Until I found that at
the last gasp while working through all the possible replacements, I was
grimly contemplating compiling the oldstable version of evince.  All I
need is a viewer that takes half a screen on 1024x768 and refreshes
itself when the PDF is updated, and on which the text portion can be
adjusted so the margins are at the sides of the viewer and that
positioning is remembered from page to page.

Not too much to ask, is it? Why do I have to change away from what was
a perfectly working evince pre-jessie?

Rerelease "oldevince", please!

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.17.0-betty (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  evince-common              3.14.1-2
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.19-18
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcairo2                  1.14.0-2.1
ii  libevdocument3-4           3.14.1-2
ii  libevview3-3               3.14.1-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.14.5-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.14.1-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.8-3
ii  libsecret-1-0              0.18-1+b1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-5
ii  shared-mime-info           1.3-1
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.8.18-0+deb8u1
pn  gvfs      <none>

Versions of packages evince suggests:
pn  nautilus      <none>
ii  poppler-data  0.4.7-1
ii  unrar         1:5.2.7-0.1

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