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Bug 313297 - Add file name to the file properties
Add file name to the file properties
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.3.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
: 317695 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-08-12 07:43 UTC by gvlatyshev
Modified: 2008-08-17 11:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8


Description gvlatyshev 2005-08-12 07:43:21 UTC 
Add file name to the file properties

Document with the title "Microsoft Word - Selkala_PhDThesis_160903.doc" can have
the filename isbn9512267217.pdf. It is very annoying when you read files from
directory with >10 randomly named pdf files.

Now the only way to figure out what file i am reading is to open "Save a copy"
dialog.


Other information:
Comment 1 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-08-16 12:14:44 UTC 
Not sure about this one, up to Bryan...
Comment 2 Bryan W Clark 2005-08-16 14:42:58 UTC 
I guess the question to ask is, Why do you need to know the file name of the
document you're looking at?   I can see how the awkward file names are annoying,
but I don't understand why you need to know those awkward file name.
Comment 3 gvlatyshev 2005-08-26 13:31:58 UTC 
Suppose i have a directory with many pdf's (~30 or so). I browse to this
directory with filemanager, open the file and then close filemanager (of browse
to another location). Now I want to delete (or move to another location) the
document i've just read. To accomplish this i need the file name.
Comment 4 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-09-01 09:47:59 UTC 
Sounds like an interesting problem... Word processors and image viewers usually
show the filename in the window title, though they are a lot less likely to have
meaningful titles than a pdf.
The only sort of similar app that I can think of is web browser, but there you
have the address bar to show "filename"...

Anyway properties dialog strikes me as inappropriate for this sort of task, it's
too indirect. Maybe we should show both title and file in the window title? Any
better idea?
Comment 5 Bryan W Clark 2005-09-02 16:52:41 UTC 
I think we already have a bug about giving the filename in the title when the
titles are bad.  I don't really want to add it there in general.  I feel like
this is a problem that could be better solved by the file manager / beagle like
search engine than evince could solve very well on it's own. *shrug*
Comment 6 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-09-03 00:03:40 UTC 
Make sense to me. WONTFIX this one, will fix the other one about bad titles.

Bryan, one day evince will have no bugs and I'll stop throwing them at you ;)
Thanks for all the feedback!
Comment 7 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2005-10-11 22:24:11 UTC 
*** Bug 317695 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***