[Okular-devel] Find bar

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimecres 14 Febrer 2007, Pino Toscano va escriure:
> Hi,
>
> I've in my HD a patch that could be committed (given that the comments on
> the Dot about the recent article about document viewers in KDE 4).
> The patch is about introducing a find bar on the bottom (ala Firefox), just
> like Kate is doing in its KDE 4 version.

Is that some new class on kdeui or is everybody reinventing the wheel?

> The only thing why I kept it here is the following:
> one of the possible actions of a link is to perform a specified action,
> like going to the next page, to the last, etc..., and to start the search
> for something in the document. This is typical with presentation generated
> with the beamer module of LaTeX (it's the magnify glass among the small
> icons on the footer of every slide).
> The problem arises in presentation mode: in that mode, we can't show the
> find bar of the pageview. acroread shows a small floating window with a
> line edit and a search button. What should we do in the case, even from an
> usable point of view (Florian and Sharad)?

Maybe on presentation mode we can show the "normal" find dialog?

Albert

>
> Ideas? opinions?