Bug 507754

Summary:	Overview mode does not show more than one row
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Jeffory Orrok <jeff>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	25.04.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Jeffory Orrok 2025-08-01 16:37:00 UTC

SUMMARY - Overview mode does not show more than one row


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open a document; Select Overview mode
2. Increase the number of columns in Settings > General
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
A single row of pages is displayed wasting a lot of vertical space that could be used to better fulfill the spirit of "overview"

EXPECTED RESULT
Several rows of pages should be displayed, increasing proportionally with the number of columns specified in Settings

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
see below

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
kinfo output
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.9-300.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6820HK CPU @ 2.70GHz
Memory: 31.2 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® HD Graphics 530
Graphics Processor 2: llvmpipe

Comment 1 Jeffory Orrok 2025-08-01 16:49:58 UTC

Looks like there's a package on Debian called katarakt which has a grid view.  Overview should be like that.

Comment 2 Jeffory Orrok 2025-08-02 00:31:13 UTC

UPDATE - I just opened another pdf file, and it is showing multiple rows.  I am not sure why the first document shows only one row.

Comment 3 Jeffory Orrok 2025-08-02 02:01:04 UTC

Further experimentation reveals that some documents open in continuous view and others do not, which seems to account for the variation in the number of rows presented in overview.  So perhaps the UX needs to be tweaked so that it's a bit more intuitive to a user what is going on.

Comment 4 Jeffory Orrok 2025-08-02 02:06:52 UTC

(In reply to Jeffory Orrok from comment #3)
> Further experimentation reveals that some documents open in continuous view
> and others do not, which seems to account for the variation in the number of
> rows presented in overview.  So perhaps the UX needs to be tweaked so that
> it's a bit more intuitive to a user what is going on.

And "open in continuous view by default" *is* set in my settings, so why do some documents not open that way?

Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2025-08-02 09:39:46 UTC

Are you sure you are using 25.04.1?

Because this seems like https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497715 but should be fixed on 25.04.1

Unless you manually selected "Use file information to determine whether to open in continuous mode by default" and then are complaining that this is happening.

Comment 6 Bug Janitor Service 2025-08-17 03:46:25 UTC

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Comment 7 Bug Janitor Service 2025-09-01 03:47:26 UTC

🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.