Public bug reported:
This is a bug report related to usability, please deal with it as such,
that is, let us discuss if the behaviour is correct or not before
dealing with technical aspects. This bug has been introduced in karmic.
When evince crashes, it offers the option to recover documents at next
startup. This option makes a lot of sense if evince is opened from the
menus, that is, if there is no file to open. It makes few sense when
evince is launched by clicking on an unrelated pdf to open it. There are
various reasons for that.
1) evince is a viewer, not an editor like openoffice, so in general it
is not so important to "recover" documents. Actually, the word "recover"
is plain wrong, since there is nothing to recover at all, because evince
is not an editor like openoffice. "open" or "load" is the right word
perhaps.
2) evince, differently from e.g. firefox, is not a multi-window and/or
multi-tabs application. This is in harmony with the gnome guidelines
that suggest just one document per window. Therefore, it has few sense
to open an unrelated document when clicking on a different pdf. I
consider this the most important reason.
3) if evince crashes on a pdf, chances are it will crash again so
recover is not that useful
4) if evince crashes, the user typically will click on the same pdf
again to reopen (and eventually discover point 3 above). This currently
triggers the "recover document" dialog, and whatever is the user choice,
the same document is opened, only once (because evince does not open
multiple windows for the same document)
I work with pdfs all day, and evince tends to crash often in recent
releases, thus I have good experience with the recover functionality. I
personally never found that useful, and found annoying a frequent popup
before opening my documents.
I would therefore suggest that the recover documents functionality is
either entirely removed or just used when evince is launched from the
menus (technically, when there is no document to open in the evince
command line).
If not, at least point 4 should be addressed, that is, the recover
functionality should not be offered if the only document to recover is
the one that is going to be opened. Also, the word "recover" should be
changed for something better. Will report upstream later.
** Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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The option to recover documents does not look right in a viewer such as evince
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403960
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