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Bug 595600 - Horizontal scrolling and tooltips for section titles in the index pane
Horizontal scrolling and tooltips for section titles in the index pane
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 518726
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-09-18 15:57 UTC by alex bolgarov
Modified: 2009-09-20 13:59 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: 2.26.x
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Screenshot with narow index pahe that truncates section titles (38.87 KB, image/png)
2009-09-18 15:57 UTC, alex bolgarov
Details

Description alex bolgarov 2009-09-18 15:57:05 UTC
Created attachment 143449 [details]
Screenshot with narow index pahe that truncates section titles

In the Index pane of the evince window, the contents of the document is shown
as a tree. This is good. The bad is, this pane can be narrow and evince only
shows truncates the document's sections titles, to fit the width of the pane.
If the sections of the document are nested, their titles in the index pane are
offset to the right according to the nesting, and often you can only see
three-four letters from the section title.

There is no way to scroll the index pane horizontally, and the evince does not
show a full section title text as a tooltip when mouse pointer is hovering over
it. And it is not very convenient to resize the index pane every time you want
to see the contents and then resize it back when you want to read the chosen
page of the document. 

The index pane would be much more useful if it had a horizontal scrolling and a
tooltips with complete section title. 

And I would suggest removing ellipses (...) that indicate that the section
title was truncated. This just adds to the offense of not being able to see the
full section title: in place of those ellipses, couple more letters of the
section title could be made visible. Similarly, the page numbers could be
removed - they also truncate section title. At least, displaying page numbers
could be a user preference option. 

I'm attaching the screenshot image that illustrates the problem.
Comment 1 Carlos Garcia Campos 2009-09-20 13:59:10 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 518726 ***