[okular] [Bug 425438] About the new UI of Annotations tools.

[Simone Gaiarin]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425438

Simone Gaiarin <simgunz at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Simone Gaiarin <simgunz at gmail.com> ---
Hi Felipe and thanks for the feedback. I'll try to reply to your points

> - I need to navigate in a drop-down menu "Quick Annotations" using two clicks instead of one to access a predefined tool.
True

> (I tried to define a shortcut to this menu but it doesn't work.)
Well, this seems a bug.

> - The actual selected "predefined annotation tool" is less visible and I can't peek at the "old" sidebar to see the shortcut by the "always present" ordered icons.
I guess you mean looking at the order of the icons of the old toolbar, because
I think that the shortcut was not visible on the toolbar.


> - If I use the new "Annotation bar" to try to perceive what predefined tool I'm using ... I have to look at a gazillion of icons to infer (type, color, 
Well, actually only two icons: type and color. The old toolbar did provide only
these two pieces of information.

> etc.) ... and this bar steals vertical space.
You can move the toolbar on the left or right side of the window and save
vertical space. Though when moved to the left it will be to the right of the
sidebar.

> At my use case, I don't need a bar to configure each new annotation with new colors and etc. I just need a practical way to access predefined tools (if possible, without stealing vertical space) ... with a good UI to alternate between them and see what is selected. 
I think we should try to keep a better compatibility with the old toolbar to
avoid breaking the users habit. To sum it, I think that to solve your issue we
need to:
- create a new quick annotation toolbar that could be kept always visible
- assign a shortcut to show/hide this toolbar

What do you think?

I think that the main advantages of the new toolbar is that it make easy to
change the annotations configuration on the fly, and make some previously
hidden features more visible, e.g. continuous mode.

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