Thumbnails sidepane cannot be shrunk once it has been enlarged

[Kim Nguyễn]

When one elarges the thumbnail sidepane horizontally, (s)he cannot shrink it down to a smaller size:

steps to reproduce:

- open a pdf in evince with sufficiently many pages (say 3).
- Make the Thumbnail sidepane visible. Originally it should display one column with the three pages
- Hold the pane separator and drag to the right. When the pane is sufficiently wide, the content might (it does not
always do it...) reflow to show two columns and then three columns. If the thumbnails are not reflowed, just hit ctrl-r
to force a redraw.

- Try to shrink the sidepane to its original size. This cannot be done anymore (and if gvfs is installed, then the state of
evince UI is kept as metadata for the *file* and you need command line hackery to reset it, see the upstream bugreport).

What should happen instead:
I should be able to freely resize the side pane until it reaches its minimal width of 1 column.

Additional informations:
evince version: 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.1
ubuntu release: precise (12.04)
uname -a: Linux tartufo 3.2.0-26-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 14 17:49:24 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Attached is a video showing what happens.

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

This appears to be working in Quantal and Raring.

[aaron (nelaaro)]

It would be nice to have a link to the upstream bug report and the command line trickery used to fix this for those who are still sitting with out a updated patched version.

[aaron (nelaaro)]

This is what I found

Debian Bug report logs - #429687
evince: Thumbnails get too wide

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=429687

[Ritesh Khadgaray (khadgaray)]

commit 5a3601d1ccfc1adf3f91e60f6de27e3ee1a5c6a2
Author: Carlos Garcia Campos <email address hidden>
Date: Sun Jul 29 15:18:16 2007 +0000

Set horizontal scrollbar policy to AUTOMATIC instead of NEVER. Workaround

2007-07-29 Carlos Garcia Campos <email address hidden>
        * shell/ev-sidebar-thumbnails.c: (ev_sidebar_thumbnails_init):
        Set horizontal scrollbar policy to AUTOMATIC instead of
        NEVER. Workaround for bug #449462.

[Ritesh Khadgaray (khadgaray)]

[Impact]
 * Evince's "Thumbnails" side-bar cannot be minimized once you've expanded it to a point where 2 or more columns of page previews are shown.

[Test Case]
1. Open Evince.
2. Open a PDF document with multiple pages.
3. Move the side-bar border to the point where multiple pages will fit in one row.
4. Close and re-open Evince.
5. Attempt to move the side-bar border back to the left.

[Regression Potential]
 * n/a

[Other Info]

 * Upstream issue - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449462

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

sponsored

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The patch used for fixing this claims to be from 2007. Obviously, the evince in precise is much newer than that. Could someone please explain why a 6 year old patch is somehow the correct fix for a bug in a one-year-old release?

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Kim, or anyone else affected,

Accepted evince into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/3.4.0-0ubuntu1.7 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

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Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Ritesh Khadgaray (khadgaray)]

Hi Steve

  The fix is a workaround for a bug in gtk. This was added to evince but later removed ,since the bug was fixed in gtk.

-- ritz

[Ritesh Khadgaray (khadgaray)]

Hi Steve

  Thanks. This fixes the issue on my system.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package evince - 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.7

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evince (3.4.0-0ubuntu1.7) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_sidebar_thumbnails.patch:
    - Thumbnails sidepane cannot be shrunk once it has been enlarged (lp: #1021153)
 -- Ritesh Khadgaray <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:10:45 +0530

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

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