Bug 433299 - evince will not open two instances of the same file on the screen
Summary: evince will not open two instances of the same file on the screen
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evince
Version: 8
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Kristian Høgsberg
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-18 14:42 UTC by Charlie Bennett
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:03 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-02-18 16:12:03 UTC
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Description Charlie Bennett 2008-02-18 14:42:10 UTC
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evince-2.20.2-1.fc8

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. % evince spc3r23.pdf
   Once evince window with the document comes up
2. % evince spc3r23.pdf
   Metacity throbs the Window-List icon for the other
   instance.
3.
  
Actual results:

Only once intance of the file is open at one time.

Expected results:

Multiple instances of the file.  This is important when
trying to code from specifications in the in 500-page
range where multiple distant pages of the document must
be visible simultaneously.

Additional info:

This fails the "Principle of Least Astonishment".

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2008-02-18 16:12:03 UTC
File-Open a copy

Comment 2 Charlie Bennett 2008-02-20 16:44:25 UTC
Thanks for pointing this out.  I'll build a copy redist to my
Fedora 6 users.



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