[kde-doc-english] Okular Text Selection

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 9 d'abril de 2012, a les 00:41:15, vau escriure:
> On 04/08/2012 10:01 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Diumenge, 8 d'abril de 2012, a les 09:17:29, Kurt Bischoff va escriure:
> >> On 04/08/2012 03:15 AM, Yuri Chornoivan wrote:
> >>> написане Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:08:33 +0300, Kurt Bischoff
> >>> 
> >>> <kbischoff at frontiernet.net>:
> >>>> Please forward to the Okular developers unless this is clearly a
> >>>> documentation-only issue.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thank you for Okular and for the documentation.
> >>>> 
> >>>> When I use Okular and I want to select text, I have to go to
> >>>> Tools-->Text Selection Tool or press Ctrl+4.  But I want the program
> >>>> to be in that mode by default when I start Okular or open a new
> >>>> document.  So there should be a preferences option to change the
> >>>> default.  But I don't see it in the menus or in the Okular
> >>>> documentation.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I am guessing that this should be a request for a feature and that it
> >>>> is not a shortcoming of the documentation.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Please forward to the Okular developers unless this is clearly a
> >>>> documentation-only issue.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thank you.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Kurt Bischoff
> >>> 
> >>> Hi!
> >>> 
> >>> I'm using Okular 0.14.80 (self-compiled from git master). This version
> >>> is automatically use the mode selected during the last session. There
> >>> is no need to select the default mode (this is very reasonable
> >>> behaviour, imho). Should it be mentioned in documentation?
> >>> 
> >>> Hope this helps.
> >>> 
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Yuri
> >> 
> >> Yuri,
> >> 
> >> Thanks for your reply.
> >> 
> >> Yes, that behavior seems perfectly reasonable to me too.
> >> 
> >> If that is the behavior, then I guess it would be good to mention it,
> >> along with any other modes whose defaults are saved  between sessions.
> >> 
> >> But the program does not seem to work that way for me.  It always starts
> >> up in the Browse Tool mode rather than Text Selection Tool mode.
> > 
> > Because you are not running Okular 0.14.80 (self-compiled from git master)
> > as Yuri is
> > 
> >> And note that you can have more than one Okular session, each with its
> >> own document, running at once.   So I don't think it is as simple as you
> >> say.
> > 
> > It is simple, what's the problem? Last selected tool will prevail.
> > 
> >> It seems that the mode is not associated with the copy of a document
> >> either.
> > 
> > No it's not.
> > 
> >> I ran a test by changing the mode for a document, then closing
> >> it,  and opening it again, and the change of mode was not preserved.
> > 
> > You are using a version without the feature, so any test you do is going
> > to be meaningless ;-)
> 
> When would you expect the new behavior to be propagated to the popular
> Linux distros?

I have no involvement in distro packaging.

Obviously not sooner than August that is when the new KDE version is released.

Albert

> 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> >> 
> >> I am using Okular 0.13.2 on KDE 4.7.2 release 5, current with automatic
> >> updates for opensuse 12.1.11.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Kurt
> >> 
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> 
> Kurt