[Bug 220759] Review Request: pdfcube - PDF viewer with a spinning cube

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Summary: Review Request: pdfcube - PDF viewer with a spinning cube


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220759





------- Additional Comments From mrsam at courier-mta.com  2006-12-28 22:40 EST -------
Package built and installed fine, but:

1. pdfcube does not appear to be fully mature.  On my laptop compiz works fine.
 Since I cannot run pdfcube directly from gnome (see #2), with this package, I
have to start it from gnome-terminal.  pdfcube runs, and shows a portion of the
first page in the PDF file in full screen mode.  The pdf is of a legal-sized
document, so I only see the top half of the tall page.  pgup and pgdn seems to
advance to the next/prev page, still showing the top-half of the page.  Tried to
figure out how to reduce magnification, to fit the entire page on the screen,
with no luck.

There was no documentation in the package, so I went to the project home's page,
and found some documentation.  Despite the claims on the project's web site, the
cube transition result in some visible, and rather annoying, display flicker
from me.  Furthermore, the zoom keys only zoom in on parts of the visible page,
and I still can't find a way to view the bottom half of the pdf page.  This
appears to be a bug, and the software does not appear to handle pdf files of
arbitrary page size.

Additionally, running pdfcube from gnome-terminal, a "corrupted shadow" of the
gnome-terminal window, that pdfcube gets started from, is overlayed on top of
the pdf page, and it remains on top when I flip between the pages.  On a hunch,
I ran "sleep" in the shell, before starting pdfcube, and minimized the
gnome-terminal window while it slept.  That got rid of the diplay corruption.

2. Package did not install a desktop file.  So, there's no way to run pdfcube
from gnome, except indirectly from firefox, and manually overriding the default
handler (evince, or xpdf) and manually typing /usr/bin/pdfcube.

An application file should be added to the package.  Look at
/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop, and create a similar file and add it to
the package.  You can try looking for a generic icon present in the base gnome
install, and use it as an icon for this package, or quickly hack something up
yourself.

Doing this should result in pdfcube being runnable from the Gnome menu, and
Firefox should then offer pdfcube as an option for viewing PDF files.

But the first issue with this package is much more serious, IMHO.


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