Putting the mouse over a document for example illuminates the document - but too hard

[dominik langer]

If I put my mouse over an PDF document, it is illuminated. But I think that the illumination is too hard, because then you can't see the preview any more. I don't know how to solve this, but it's a usability problem. Look at the screenshot.

The problem occurs only by PDF documents.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

I can confirm that the highlight applied to a document when it is moused over is 'hard', but I do not believe this is a bug that requires attention. Generally, the user will only be mousing over a document in order to select and do something with it. The hard highlight will not impede their ability to work as it will only be highlighted temporarily, before they move the cursor away to do something else. The document icons are also too small for any text to be discernible, even when the document is not highlighted, so I see no need to take any action on this bug.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Dominik, can you please specify what problem this 'hard highlighting' causes? As pre my comment above, I do not see this as a problem that needs fixed so I feel inclined to mark it as invalid, for both the Papercuts project and Evince.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Speculating, but I wonder if this is because Evince currently renders completely new text on a solid background over the top of the document, rather than highlighting the text that was already drawn in the document; eg. the highlight does not exactly match the shape/size of the original document text and neither can the original text be seen underneath when the highlight is active.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

@Paul As far as I am aware, the issue isn't about the rendering of text in a document, rather the rending of text atop the icon of a document, which is a completely different issue. The text on the icon, at least in my tests, is to small to be legible in the default installation, even without the highlighting, which I do not see as a problem since making the test of an A4 document legible as an icon would require an increase in the size of said icon several times to a point where it was too large to be practical.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Oh right, nothing to do with Evince. We're talking about the desktop file browser (nautilus).

[Vish (vish)]

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME .
Once submitted upstream , do report back here with the upstream bug number.Thanks in advance!