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Bug 633198 - Support opening multiple documents in one window (no tabs)
Support opening multiple documents in one window (no tabs)
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-10-26 15:16 UTC by Felix Z.
Modified: 2018-05-22 14:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
opening multiple documents from a file manager (26.30 KB, image/png)
2010-10-26 15:16 UTC, Felix Z.
Details
current situation: three independent instances (88.03 KB, image/png)
2010-10-26 15:16 UTC, Felix Z.
Details
mockup: one instance showing the documents one after the other (21.16 KB, image/png)
2010-10-26 15:18 UTC, Felix Z.
Details

Description Felix Z. 2010-10-26 15:16:16 UTC
Created attachment 173264 [details]
opening multiple documents from a file manager

Notice: see the attachements for a graphical explanation

It would be nice if Evince could open multiple documents in one window.

Current situation [attachement 1 + 2]: opening multiple documents at once results in multiple windows

Mockup [attachement 1 + 3]: opening multiple documents results in one window showing all documents in the sidebar, enabling continuous reading: scrolling past the last page of the first document seamlessly reveals the first page of the next document. Additionally, the following features may be needed/useful:

* opening and closing each document's bookmarks in the sidebar (as shown in attachment 3 [details]; dia-manual.pdf)
* sorting the documents in the sidebar via drag'n'drop
* drag'n'drop from the file manager into the sidebar
* search through all documents at once

This way, it would be possible to read series of PDFs without combining them into one file.
Comment 1 Felix Z. 2010-10-26 15:16:57 UTC
Created attachment 173265 [details]
current situation: three independent instances
Comment 2 Felix Z. 2010-10-26 15:18:06 UTC
Created attachment 173267 [details]
mockup: one instance showing the documents one after the other
Comment 3 sasha.qr 2011-10-16 09:54:31 UTC
*** Bug 661895 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Felix Z. 2011-10-16 10:13:08 UTC
Bug 661895 explicitly is about adding tabs; this one is about opening multiple documents in one instance without tabs. Thus, I think Bug 661895 is should not be a duplicate of this one here.
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 14:02:57 UTC
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