{"id":733,"date":"2014-07-30T17:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T15:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/?p=733"},"modified":"2014-07-30T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T15:44:44","slug":"evince-hackfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/2014\/07\/30\/evince-hackfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Evince Hackfest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Evince<\/a> hackfest<\/a> took place last week from 23rd to 25th July in Strasbourg<\/a>. Yes, 3 days only, but very productive in my opinion, I’ll summarize all the cool stuff we worked on.<\/p>\n

HiDPI<\/h2>\n

This work was initially started by Owen<\/a>, and then Germ\u00e1n<\/a> kept the patches<\/a> up to date with evince git master. I reviewed all the pending patches and updated the thumbnails one and the result is that evince doesn’t look blurry on HiDPI screens any more.<\/p>\n

\"Evince<\/a>

Evince running with GDK_SCALE=2<\/p><\/div>\n

Recent View<\/h2>\n

This was a GSoC project of 2013, but the patch provided by the student was never in an “upstreamable” state. Again Germ\u00e1n, who always loved this feature, took care of the patch<\/a> addressing my review comments. At the beginning of the hackfest most of the work has already been done, we only needed a few more review iterations during the hackfest to finally push this feature to master<\/a>. The idea is to show the list of recent documents as an icon view with thumbnails and documents metadata. This view is loaded when evince is launched without any document replacing the useless empty window we had before. It also replaces the recent documents submenu in the gear menu.<\/p>\n

\"Evince<\/a><\/p>\n

UI improvements<\/h2>\n

The move to the header bar recently made the toolbar look a bit cluttered<\/a>, mainly because the title might use a lot of space. We discussed several ideas to improve the header bar and implemented some of them:<\/p>\n