GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 170895
Remove PDF logo from thumbails
Last modified: 2005-03-24 00:26:37 UTC
Version details: 0.1.9 Distribution/Version: Fedora Core 3 While at first impression, the PDF logo shown in the thumbnails looks like a "cool" feature, I think it should be removed again because of the following reasons: 1. Evince is marketed as "Simply a document viewer". Hence, users shouldn't need to be reminded they're looking at a PDF, that doesn't add any value. If necessary, they can still see ".pdf" in the file name. 2. Adding the PDF logo makes thumbnails "not truthful", so for the sake of accuracy and correctness, please don't. 3. Needlessly distracts the attention from the contents themselves, nullifying the original purpose to save time, right? 4. This is GNOME, so let's keep it as simple as possible ;-)
Come on dude, it is a cool feature. :-) Honestly I don't think this really distracts from the document itself. The visual cue is much better than looking for a file extension. Since gnome-vfs does MIME magic you don't need this extension to exist and then you'd never know which is a ps or a pdf. The idea is to give a slight hint to the nature of the document. PDF's can have lots of special capabilities like Form Entry, Annotations, Versioning, and tons of meta-data that Postcript documents don't have. So yeah, you're right it's not necessary. But it is cool and we're not officially a part of GNOME so if GNOME's standard were 'boring and simple over cool' then Evince just won't follow that until it's a part of GNOME. Even though you have a point and in the future we may have to cave into that point, I'm marking this as WONTFIX for now. Since we're a young project we have the right to be cool while we can, until the man gets us down. :-)