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Bug 628711 - evince will not launch external programs in presentation mode
evince will not launch external programs in presentation mode
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.31.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
: 633287 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-09-03 15:30 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2011-12-08 09:10 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.31/2.32


Description Pedro Villavicencio 2010-09-03 15:30:34 UTC 
this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/626142

"PROBLEM: when viewing a PDF file with associated external content, such as a movie, evince will launch the external helper application when in normal or full screen mode, but will not do so in presentation mode. When in normal or full screen mode, the mouse pointer changes from an arrow to a finger, and the tooltip "launch ......" will appear. When in presentation mode, the mouse pointer never changes shape, and clicking on the embedded link merely causes the presentation to advance to the next page.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR: evince should launch the external application in presentation mode, the same way it does in the normal and full screen modes.

TO REPRODUCE: Download attachment. Unpack in separate folder. Open test.pdf with evince. Clicking on the image on page 2 will launch the movie storm.mov in normal and full screen modes. It will fail to do so in presentation mode.

REPRODUCIBLE: 100%"

attachment:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/626142/+attachment/1526522/+files/test.tar.gz
Comment 1 dschabus 2010-09-16 12:15:32 UTC 
I can confirm this behavior with evince 2.30.3.
2.28.1 on a different machine does behave correctly though, looks like a regression to me.

Was this changed intentionally? I too would like to launch videos from a presentation.
Comment 2 vollkorn 2011-01-20 14:52:22 UTC 
I can confirm this behaviour with evince 2.32.0 on Ubuntu 10.10 Meerkat.
Comment 3 Carlos Garcia Campos 2011-01-29 13:32:10 UTC 
Fixed in git master now, thanks for reporting.
Comment 4 Carlos Garcia Campos 2011-01-30 13:06:44 UTC 
*** Bug 633287 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Giampiero Salvi 2011-12-08 08:47:37 UTC 
Hi,
I was just wondering in which version of Evince the bug fix is going to be included: I am running Ubuntu 11.04 x86_64 with Evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.3 and the bug is still there. I also built Evince 2.29.93 from source, but no fix there.
Thank you!
Comment 6 Giampiero Salvi 2011-12-08 08:48:48 UTC 
Sorry, just realized 29 is earlier than 32 :)
Comment 7 Giampiero Salvi 2011-12-08 08:53:27 UTC 
What I meant is: I also built Evince 2.91.93 from source, but no fix
there.
Comment 8 José Aliste 2011-12-08 09:10:20 UTC 
This is fixed in 3.0 and superior.