Feature request: reinstate the menu option to hide the toolbar

[Alistair Muldal]

Back in the days of Gnome 2 the evince toolbar used to be fully user-customizable, but now there is no longer even an option to hide the toolbar. I find this especially annoying when I want to view documents in full-screen mode on a small laptop display.

There are quite a few questions regarding this on AskUbuntu:

http://askubuntu.com/q/430822/185188
http://askubuntu.com/q/587095/185188
http://askubuntu.com/q/657226/185188

There is also a 4-year-old feature request for a keyboard shortcut to disable the toolbar here, although at the time the request was made it seems there was still a menu option that did this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/780491

I'm using evince 3.16.1 on Ubuntu 15.10.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Alistair Muldal (alimuldal)]

There is already a closely related issue here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714996

Unfortunately the evince devs seem to have no interest in reintroducing this feature :-/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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