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

[Felipe Toledo Bittner]

Have the same bug on a 1366x768 screen.
Evince version 3.16.1

On Sat, 06 Jun 2015 06:18:47 +0100 "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb at enbd.org>
wrote:
> 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