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Description of problem: By default, Fedora 7 makes eye of gnome the default viewer for tiff images but there's a problem in that because eye of gnome is not capable of opening multi-page tiff files (scans). Multi-page tiff files are extremely common in businesses (paperless office etc) and having the default application not be able to open them we find bizarre. It turns out that in most nautilus windows, the "Open With" option can be used to select "Document Viewer" is evince which can open the tiff files, but opening tiff files with a "Document Viewer" to many users seems incompatible so they don't even try it, and when using nautilus to search for files, there is no "Open With" option available to open them with evince. Thus we request: 1. Making "Document Viewer" (evince) be the default application to view tiff images, which can view both scans and images. 2. By default, enabling "Document Viewer" as a menu item under Applications. Currently the default behaviour is to have it disabled. In more detail: From nautilus, it is possible to pull down Open With and choose Document viewer (which is evince and does work), but to the average user, a tiff image is not a document in the normal sense, and they wouldn't select document viewer in the same way that they wouldn't normally try to open a tiff image with OpenOffice. Thus it doesn't even enter into users minds to select Document Viewer and it leaves the user in the situation of thinking that Linux is stupid because it appears that there's no way of opening multi-page tiff files. Frustrated, the user then goes looking through the Applications menu trying to find something that can open multi-page tiff files, and it just so happens that by default, "Document Viewer" does not appear under the Applications menu at all, which further convinces them that there is no application to be able to view tiff images on Linux. To make the problem worse, if you use gnome Places/Search for Files to search, you cannot use anything but the default application for opening the files, and it is impossible to select Document Viewer there. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Gnome 2.18.3
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