GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 409179
Open copy window beside main one
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:11:44 UTC
Add split view mode for browsing or compare the same document at different points (like Acrobat or Microsoft Office). This means be able to have one evince window, inside splitted in two parts, booth parts have the same document opened, but can be scrolled differently. The horizontally split line is changeable by dragging.
For sure we will not split main window. Recent evince has option to open a copy of the document in another window, probably we should give a hint to window manager to open it beside main one.
What is the opposition to adding the feature to split the main window? That is, is it technical or design philosophical? The open-a-copy feature is useful for viewing different parts of the same document, but I think that being able to split the page would have greater usability / productivity value. My usage model is mostly reading data sheets and writing drivers / tests based on them. This requires a lot of flipping back and forth among pages. Being able to do something like right-clicking on an index entry on the left and hitting "split-open" or some such and having a top/bottom split in the document viewing window would certainly increase my productivity in this case. The "open as copy" functionality, while partially fulfilling that need, has the downside of taking up a valuable couple percent of desktop space that could be used for displaying more of the document.
I concur with Comment #2 and would also have great appreciation of such a feature. Having multiple windows opened taxes the desktop organization by having duplicate framing overhead and making window management more cumbersome. Moving the viewing of a document to another desktop is annoying and simply dragging as twin view of a document to another screen is also not easily possible with two separate instances of evince. Split view definitely gets my vote for usability and as a useful feature. (I use it for thesis and scientific documentation viewing where seeing multiple parts of a document comes in very handy for equations and their related explanations and implementation)
*** Bug 638724 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please, reconsider the current behavior: - Evince in Gnome 3.22.2 doesn't have the "Open a copy of document in another window" feature any more. - Opening another window and explicitly choosing to open an already opened document doesn't work.
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