GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 661708
Display a toolbar when previewing a documents
Last modified: 2011-10-13 20:26:48 UTC
Created attachment 198967 [details] A very useful and sober toolbar from a Chrome PDF view tab. When we are previewing a document, the sober interface seems to be a great idea, but it is too much minimalist. On first thoughts, I believe we cannot even zoom out a document. I was pretty annoyed because when I opened my document, the text was so big that it was unreadable. Indeed the application was maximized and the document took all the place available. Hopefully, I'm used to using keyboard shortcuts, so I tried to ctrl+scroll out, and it works. But I think an usual user would never find how to do so. To my mind, the preview window must have a toolbar with basics actions such as zoom in, zoom out, edit/view in evince and print. Since it is a preview window, a whole toolbar might take too much space and might be no-use. I, personally, love the overlay toolbar of Google Chrome when viewing a PDF. It is sober, non-intrusive and useful. I'm in the opinion that such a toolbar in the preview window of gnome-documents will make the application easier to use.
Created attachment 198968 [details] The page is, by default, taking all the space available, which leads to an unreadable text.
Thanks for the bug report. This is planned for the next version, and has not been implemented in GNOME 3.2 only for lack of time. See bug 661598 (which I'm marking this as a duplicate of), bug 661605 and bug 661604 for our implementation plans. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 661598 ***