Then that behaviour is wrong...
Either the context menus need to change, or evince needs to be able to
handle "documents".
Under the Open With option for any file, evince appears simply as
"Document Viewer", not PDF Viewer, or TIFF Viewer, or Impress Viewer.
Simply Document Viewer. This is overly confusing and degrades User
Experience.
So, the menus need to change some way (maybe to Evince Viewer) or the
program needs to be enhanced to actually handle the generic "document"
instead of "subset of some documents"
Perhaps this is more of a papercut than anything, but it IS definitely
misleading to the user. Heck, I've been involved with Linux since the
mid '90s and I was confused by "Document Viewer". Imagine what that
will be like for the new user who suddenly decides that Ubuntu can't
open his documents when he selects Document Viewer from the Open With
menu.
There are occasions where one does not want to wait for the overhead of
loading a full Office Suite just to quickly glance over a document. Not
to mention on light-weight systems (e.g. netbooks) where the amount of
time to open OpenOffice just to quickly glance at some document is more
noticeable.
It's the same as opening image files with Gimp instead of Eye of Gnome
(listed in Open With as "Image Viewer). I wouldn't use Gimp just to get
a good look at a jpg as there's just too much overhead and lag time from
click to usable, even on my system with a quad core i7 and 4GB ram...
** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
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Document Viewer has no support for common office document file formats
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576669
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