Bug#1095860: evince: Please document gvfs-dependent functionality

[Celejar]

Package: evince
Version: 46.3.1-1+b1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: celejar at gmail.com

I've been happily using Evince for years, and I've always found Evince's
behavior of opening previously opened documents to the last page to
which they were previously opened to be very useful. Recently, on a new (KDE
focused) installation, I discovered that Evince was no longer doing
this, and was always opening documents to the beginning, even when they
had been previously opened to some other page. I eventually discovered
that this was apparently due to the fact that gvfs was not installed -
after installing it, the old behavior returned.

It seems to me that the description of the gvfs package may not be very
meaningful to the average Debian user, who may not realize that some
very useful Evince functionality depends on gvfs (which is only a
'suggestion' and not a 'recommendation' of Evince). I suggest that the
Evince package description or documentation should document the Evince
functionality that dependfs on gvfs.

Thank you for your work on this great package!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-5
ii  evince-common                                46.3.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    48~beta-1
ii  libatk1.0-0t64                               2.55.2-1
ii  libc6                                        2.40-6
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.18.2-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.18.2-2
ii  libevdocument3-4t64                          46.3.1-1+b1
ii  libevview3-3t64                              46.3.1-1+b1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                          2.42.12+dfsg-2
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.83.3-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-20t64                     44.1-2
ii  libgtk-3-0t64                                3.24.48-4
ii  libhandy-1-0                                 1.8.3-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.56.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.56.1-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.21.6-3
ii  shared-mime-info                             2.4-5+b2

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.16.0-1

Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii  gvfs             1.57.1-1
pn  nautilus-sendto  <none>
ii  poppler-data     0.4.12-1
pn  unrar            <none>

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