If you open a pdf that starts up in presentation mode, it is not at all obvious
how to get out of the presentation mode, possibly a right click menu offering
the option to leave would be better, otherwise it seems you need to know that
Escape and F12 exit the mode.
It is also slightly odd for it to open in presentation mode by default if you
aren't expecting it.
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I can see the problem when the pdf opens up automatically into presentation mode.
However I'd kind of like to see this solved in a different way than a right
click menu. Like a splash screen that goes away quickly with a hint on hitting
[ESC] to get out of presentation mode. Really the idea I like is a little
display the way Apple overlays the volume meter on the screen as the
presentation is opened and shows you how to interact with it. That's just off
the top of my head, not sure it's a good idea.
I tend to think that the present behavior is preferable to either a splash
screen or right click option. Evince is consistent with acroread and kpdf,
which counts for something. Once one has done more than zero presentations
using a pdf viewer, escape is the natural choice for exiting presentation mode.
Adding any splash screen increases the number of distractions the audience faces.
One thought: when viewing a presentation in powerpoint, escape is the standard
way of exiting the presentation unless you get to the last page. However, at
the end of the presentation powerpoint shows a blank page with the words "click
to exit" or something. Perhaps evince could have a little note either on the
last slide or on a black screen after the last slide indicating that clicking
(or pagedown) exits presentation mode.
A simplification of this would be to exit presentation mode if the "change slide
" signal is recieved but we are at the end of the presentation.
I have an Openmoko Freerunner phone. Evince is a great PDF viewer for this device (love it on the lectures :) too but using the presentation mode one is trapped with the touch screen: It's not possible to press ESC to exit the presentation since no keyboard is visible.
So I suggest that a mouse click (the only action you can do with a touch screen!) would make it possible to close the presentation mode.
Now I only can SSH in the phone to kill evince or hold down the power button to shutdown.
As an aside, it would be nice if F5 could toggle presentation mode instead of just activating it. I just found myself entering presentation mode via F5 and then pressing F5 a few more times before I realized that I cannot exit this way. And it took me a short while to think of using Esc.
A second suggestion would be to exit the presentation when the user keeps going forward after the last (black) page which says "End of presentation. Press Escape to exit.". This would provide users lacking a keyboard with a way of exiting by mouse. Maybe the text could be altered to "Click or press Escape to exit." or "Press Escape or step forward to exit." or something along these lines.
that sounds wise, F11 behaves that way for full screen in most applications, it should be a relatively unintrusive change. I hope the developers will consider this.
something else to consider might be to autohide menus/controls (or even just a close button) and have it appear if the user moves to the edge or corner of the screen.
Is it a good idea to add a right-click menu to add "exit presentation" option? As right-click is presently being used for moving to the previous slide.
Or a close button or maybe an auto hide close button at the top right corner sounds good?