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Bug 558412 - "document viewer" is actually "evince", thus it should be named that way
"document viewer" is actually "evince", thus it should be named that way
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 312399
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-10-29 16:12 UTC by Ralf Hildebrandt
Modified: 2008-10-29 18:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24



Description Ralf Hildebrandt 2008-10-29 16:12:31 UTC
I will probably ridiculed forever for this, but here it goes:

Recently I wanted to file a bug report with Ubuntu about "document viewer" (whatever that is, I'm new to Gnome, have been using KDE, but KDE 4.x is just insane, and that's mildly put).

But then I needed to specify a package name.
Naturally, I looked for "document viewer", since that's how the window was named. Didn't find anything.

After some digging I found that "Document viewer" was actually "evince".
The logo also shows a stylized "e", so that's at least some hint.

But why not actually name the program at least **a little bit** like the binary, e.g.
"evince document viewer"
or
"document viewer (evince)"

Instead, it says in HELP/About: 

Document Viewer 2.24.1
document viewer 
Using poppler 0.8.7 (cairo)

Document viewer is a document viewer? Come on...

I'd opt either for removing the 2nd line "document viewer" OR
renaming the whole thing 

evince 2.24.1
a document viewer
Using poppler 0.8.7 (cairo)

The second line seems to be a description of what the program can be used for.

document viewer man page? Nah:

$ man document-viewer
No manual entry for document-viewer

$ man documentviewer
No manual entry for documentviewer

apt-cache, anybody? Nah:

$ apt-cache search gnome document viewer
epdfview - Lightweight pdf viewer based on poppler libs
gnome-desktop-environment - The GNOME Desktop Environment


Other information:
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2008-10-29 18:17:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Recently I wanted to file a bug report with Ubuntu about "document viewer"
> (whatever that is, I'm new to Gnome, have been using KDE, but KDE 4.x is just
> insane, and that's mildly put).
> 
> But then I needed to specify a package name.
> Naturally, I looked for "document viewer", since that's how the window was
> named. Didn't find anything.

Well, on ubuntu all programmes have the "Report a bug" item right there in the Help menu, just above About. Since you found About, it you ought have noticed that... :)

The naming argument is going on in bug 312399.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 312399 ***