evince doesn't remember the window size

[Diska]

Currently uploaded in -proposed:

evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    Bug fixes:
    - Make inverted colors mode work in presentation mode too
      (#614693, Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Respect GNOME22_USER_DIR env variable (#613637, Ray Strode)
    - Fix loading of local documents when uri contains a page
      destination (#616515, Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Take default settings from last document opened. Fixes
      regression caused by migration to gio metadata (#606090, Carlos
      Garcia Campos) (LP: #544639, #503372)
    - Update icons to match gnome-icon-theme appearance (#614747,
      Hylke Bons, Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Make sure there's a new valid page range before updating caches
      (fdo#27599, Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Update FSF address everywhere (#514607, Arun Persaud)
    - Fix loading of compressed password-protected documents (#613959,
      Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Close previewer window with control + w (#612972, Carlos Garcia
      Campos)
    - Fix keybindings in previewer window (#612972, Carlos Garcia
      Campos)
    Translation updates

Test Case:
install the new version of evince, try to open a pdf and go in preview mode.

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Binary package hint: evince

evince starts with a small size and it doesn't remember the new size when
resized, it only happens when opening it without a document, it does remember
the size per document

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04

[Diska (discardi-nicola)]

right image

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Confirming, I've also sent this upstream at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613695

[Peter Passchier (peter-passchier)]

This is what I reported in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/555619

1. Ubuntu lucid (development branch) 10.04
2. 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 (lucid)
3. Documents that haven't been opened previously should open maximized if that's how I last set Evince's window.
4. Documents that haven't been opened previously always open non-maximized. (Once the window has been set to maximized, this setting will be remembered for that particular document.)

[Sam Denison (z-launchpad-denisons-org)]

I have this same problem

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Fixed in 2.30.1

See attached debdiff for sru

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted evince into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Peter Passchier (peter-passchier)]

evince 2.30.1-0ubuntu1 (lucid-proposed) still has this same bug.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Are you sure you have the right version?
I can say that it's fixed for me:

- open a pdf
- resize the window
- close the pdf
- reopen it
and then, I have the window with exactly the same size

Can you please detail your steps which lead to your check?

[Peter Passchier (peter-passchier)]

Yes, if you open a pdf, maximize, close and open the SAME document, it remembers for THAT document. Before this bug was introduced, Evince would remember the general setting of maximized or not. So open it with a NEW document, and it again opens it un-maximized, even if you closed it maximized. Also if you open Evince without a document, maximize, close, reopen, it opens un-maximized.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I accepted 2.30.1-0ubuntu2 into lucid-proposed which fixes a regression (bug 571725) . Please test the updated version. Thank you!

[Peter Passchier (peter-passchier)]

Evince 2.30.1-0ubuntu2 doesn't fix this bug (it's also not mentioned in the bug fixes).

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied lucid-proposed to maverick.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package evince - 2.30.1-0ubuntu2

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evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu2) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * add debian/patches/02_fix_dot_dir_creation.patch:
    fix dot dir creation when launching evince directly (LP: #571725)

evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    Bug fixes:
    - Make inverted colors mode work in presentation mode too
      (#614693, Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Respect GNOME22_USER_DIR env variable (#613637, Ray Strode)
    - Fix loading of local documents when uri contains a page
      destination (#616515, Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Take default settings from last document opened. Fixes
      regression caused by migration to gio metadata (#606090, Carlos
      Garcia Campos) (LP: #544639, #503372)
    - Update icons to match gnome-icon-theme appearance (#614747,
      Hylke Bons, Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Make sure there's a new valid page range before updating caches
      (fdo#27599, Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Update FSF address everywhere (#514607, Arun Persaud)
    - Fix loading of compressed password-protected documents (#613959,
      Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Close previewer window with control + w (#612972, Carlos Garcia
      Campos)
    - Fix keybindings in previewer window (#612972, Carlos Garcia
      Campos)
    Translation updates
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:02:33 +0200

[Peter Passchier (peter-passchier)]

Evince 2.30.1-0ubuntu2
If you open Evince without a document, it always opens unmaximized, no matter how you closed it.

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

I tested by upgrading evince, libpoppler5, libpoppler-glib4, poppler-utils to the lucid-proposed versions, and this fixes everything for me, as far as I can tell. This is pretty much the first time in years I see evince sizing itself in a somewhat "smart" way.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package evince - 2.30.1-0ubuntu3

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evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu3) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Jamie Strandboge ]
  * debian/apparmor-profile.abstraction: allow writes to removable media
    (LP: #490230)

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * debian/patches/03_fix_opening_hash_filename.patch:
    Fix opening files with '#' in its name (LP: #578996)

evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * add debian/patches/02_fix_dot_dir_creation.patch:
    fix dot dir creation when launching evince directly (LP: #571725)

evince (2.30.1-0ubuntu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    Bug fixes:
    - Make inverted colors mode work in presentation mode too
      (#614693, Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Respect GNOME22_USER_DIR env variable (#613637, Ray Strode)
    - Fix loading of local documents when uri contains a page
      destination (#616515, Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Take default settings from last document opened. Fixes
      regression caused by migration to gio metadata (#606090, Carlos
      Garcia Campos) (LP: #544639, #503372)
    - Update icons to match gnome-icon-theme appearance (#614747,
      Hylke Bons, Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Make sure there's a new valid page range before updating caches
      (fdo#27599, Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Update FSF address everywhere (#514607, Arun Persaud)
    - Fix loading of compressed password-protected documents (#613959,
      Carlos Garcia Campos)
    - Close previewer window with control + w (#612972, Carlos Garcia
      Campos)
    - Fix keybindings in previewer window (#612972, Carlos Garcia
      Campos)
    Translation updates
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 13 May 2010 16:31:06 +0200

[Malte Helmert (helmert)]

I'm affected by this bug; I have to set the window size and deselect "Continuous" for every new PDF.

Is this a regression?

My evince version seems to be newer than the one containing the patch:

# apt-cache show evince
Package: evince
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 6368
Maintainer: Ubuntu Desktop Team <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1
Replaces: evince-gtk
Provides: djvu-viewer, evince-gtk, pdf-viewer, postscript-viewer
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.29.3), libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libdjvulibre21 (>= 3.5.22), libevdocument2 (>= 2.29.5), libevview2 (>= 2.29.5), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.27.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.23.5), libgnome-keyring0 (>= 2.22.2), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libjpeg62, libkpathsea5, liblaunchpad-integration1 (>= 0.1.17), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpoppler-glib4 (>= 0.12), libsm6, libspectre1 (>= 0.2.3), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libtiff4, libx11-6 (>= 0), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), gconf2 (>= 2.10.1-2), gnome-icon-theme (>= 2.17.1), shared-mime-info
Recommends: dbus-x11, gvfs
Suggests: unrar, poppler-data, nautilus, apparmor
Conflicts: apparmor (<< 2.3.1+1403-0ubuntu18), evince-gtk
Filename: pool/main/e/evince/evince_2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
Size: 460076
MD5sum: 5a736a8fc46af14af05373e6ea453567
SHA1: 913976395209611c0c9b152bf21f3e91d1a37248
SHA256: 4c0bf7f45141006868ae030f1a7ef0d8a1f06a8b43df61e3b5678194576ce904
Description: Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
 Evince is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print
 PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DJVU, DVI and Portable
 Document Format (PDF) files.
 When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text,
 copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and
 table-of-contents bookmarks.
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 3y
Task: ubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-frontend, ubuntu-netbook

[Peter Passchier (peter-passchier)]

Yes, it's back here too, same version as above, 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1, while it was fixed in 2.30.1-0ubuntu3

[Charlie Schluting ☃ (cschluti)]

Regression is still there in 2.31.90-0ubuntu2 on Maverick.

[dORSY (dorsyka)]

Here too. Maverick, latest updates.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

I can't reproduce the bug with evince 2.31.92, this one will be available in few hours after building + publishing, can you please try?

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

I'm also getting this again in Maverick

[Charlie (collinslyle)]

As am I.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Please do not reopen closed bug report. Here, the issue has the same effect but the cause is *totally* different (evince changed the way it's saving window settings and you have to save it explicitly by the file menu). So, to discuss this, open a new bug report please, and file one upstream as well. Thanks

[vanadium (ftack)]

Ubuntu 12.10 and evince 3.6.0-0ubuntu2, fresh install, fully updated (21 november): this still seems to work flakey.
Launch one document, maximize, close
Launch another document: it is launched maximized: OK. Close
Launch a third document: it is launched unmaximized, although it fills the screen. Expectation: it should launch maximized.

Experiment done on a fresh install, with new documents that never were opened on the system before.

[Regular User (dot.ru)]

Here too, evince 3.6 ubuntu 12.10 although it does seem to remember the windows size for a previously opened PDF, it doesn't for a newly opened one. In this case the window will open in almost any position and any size apparently.

[Mazay (mazay0)]

Evince 3.14.1 is still affected.

[Yetisaurus Akjas (eduard-budai)]

Evince 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.8 in Xubuntu Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS \n \l does not remember the window size and position used last time, if it is closed when viewing a PDF document, and reopened to display another or the same file.

[betteropensource (betteropensource)]

The problem is still present, almost 5 years have already passed, will it be solved?

[betteropensource (betteropensource)]

Evince 42.3 is still affected. (in Ubuntu 22.04 fresh install some weeks ago...)