This does still happen with the newest version in Dapper. Whilst viewing a pdf over ftp using evince, attempts to view pdfs on the local filesystem sit with the "Loading..." text.
It no only blocks during downloading, but whilst the "Authentication Required" box is shown when viewing a pdf on an ftp site too. reproduce thus: evince ftp://www.tug.org//tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm/dvipdfm.pdf & evince ~/test.pdf ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Confirmed -- Evince has blocking problems https://launchpad.net/bugs/45957 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
