Evince keyboard focus on thumbnails upon launch

[PrivateUser132781]

Binary package hint: evince

When evince launches with a pdf (e.g. when downloading a pdf in Firefox), the focus is on the thumbnails rather than on the main page. This results in movement to the next page, rather than scrolling the current page, when one presses the arrow keys. This is unexpected behaviour and most users would therefore have to click on the main page before using the keyboard to scroll -- a small but annoying irritation.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, what ubuntu version do you use?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not confirming the issue on karmic opening a local pdf using nautilus

[Victor Gijsbers (victor-lilith)]

Confirming the issue on an up-to-date Jaunty. (Of course, you do have to have "View > Sidepane" on before this usability issue arises.) Focusing on the main window indeed seems better than focusing on the thumbnails.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

hmmm, very confused. for me (on jaunty) the focus is on the toolbar buttons...

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention.
I'm Unable to reproduce this in Karmic.

A paper cut is a minor usability annoyance that an average user would encounter on his/her first day of using a new installation of Ubuntu 9.10.

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.

[mtl (mtl)]

When working on a document, I start evince from the command line. The main document viewport is initially focused only sometimes. It's not clear to me under what conditions the focus is placed on the document or on the chrome. Ctrl-PgUp / PgDn seem to work consistently for navigating pages no matter what part of the app has keyboard focus, but I'd prefer to use j/k or arrow keys (which are only available when the document pane is focused).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue seems similar to bug #402717 and fixed in karmic