[okular] [Bug 435918] Double click on "highlight with comment" annotation selects text instead of opening annotation

[Massimiliano L]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435918

--- Comment #2 from Massimiliano L <m.lincetto at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #1)
> You are in text selection mode, clicking doing selection things is the
> expected behaviour.
> 
> Why would it do something else? if you want to open the annotation you can
> right click or you can go to browse mode.

Hi Albert, thanks for the feedback. Maybe I should have filed it as a feature
request rather than a bug.

Please note that right click in "text selection" mode does not do anything
unless some text is selected, and even in that case the context menu does not
have to do with annotations. So it is not possible to open the annotation that
way.

I honestly think it is counterintuitive and potentially misleading for "text
selection" mode to show annotations while allowing to open only some of them.

That way there is no visual/functional distinction between a simple highlight
and an "highlight with comment". Furthermore, you have a situation where some
"highlight with comment" open - if you click in the right place, namely a space
between words where applicable - and some other do not. This feels like a lack
of UX consistency to me. I truly believed Okular was broken for months until I
realised by pure chance the underlying pattern, and I consider myself a fairly
"advanced" user.

Also please consider the use case where one may want to copy some sentences and
the related annotations on a notepad. One would need to keep switching between
"text selection" and "browse mode", because in "text selection" you cannot open
annotations and in "browse mode" you cannot select the document text.

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