[Okular-devel] Configuring the annotatin tools

[Florian Graessle]

[resending, this time including the list ;) ]

Hey Pino,

Pino Toscano wrote On 20.04.2007 11:52 Uhr:
> the annotating possibilities of okular include also a number of tools that can 
> be used, eg underlining, highlighting, geometry shapes, text tools, stamp, 
> and so on.
> The ones you see in the annotating toolbar (Tools -> Review, or F6 -- 
> suggestions for better menu/namings/shortcuts are welcome) are just some of 
> the possible tools.
> What I'm thinking about is adding a dialog, much like the one you use to 
> configure the toolbars of every KDE application, to choose the tools to be 
> shown in the annotating toolbar, and their order.
> Of course, this implies we should do a proper choice of the default tools in 
> the toolbar.
> 
> What do you think about the idea, for all the points of view?

Giving users more choice with the annotation types is a good idea :)

If I understood you correctly on IRC the other possible tools are mainly
(merely?) variations in the stroke color. So besides the thin green
highlighter we currently have this meant e.g. a red thin highlighter?

If so what about offering the current annotation tools and for each
(where applicable) let the user choose among a set of colors. This would
offer a broader selection of colors to the user alongside an easier way
to choose the right color (compared with a toolbar configuration
dialog). Have a look at a quick mockup:

  http://okular.holehan.org/uploads/okular_annotations.png

Also the number of annotation actions could possibly be reduced if one
combines the note annotation (that's the first annotation type) and the
stamp annotation. Here the user could choose between a few sensible
note/stamp types like "Note", "Warning", "Hint", "Good", "Bad", "Smiley"
or whatever - each with a different icon. The straight line and polygon
annotation could also be combined as the straight line is already a
subset of a polygon.

Thoughts?


  Florian