[Okular-devel] Layout of the toolbar

[sharad]

Hi Florian,

I'm back in the institute once more! it feels good to be able to work again,
I'm aware that I've trashed up the deadlines that we had set, but i'll try
and make up for it, I'm right now typing the evaluation that i'd done and
will be seding it to you asap, regarding the toolbar comparion, I cant seem
to find acrobat reader 9.

regards,
sharad

On 5/14/07, Florian Graessle <holehan at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Pino Toscano wrote On 14.05.2007 0:32 Uhr:
> > Hi,
> >
> > as you might know already, Okular's main toolbar is basically the one
> you can
> > find in KPDF, with the few changes to the labelling of two zoom actions,
> and
> > to the order of the zoom combobox.
> > Thus, it is:
> > Open (recent, dropdown) || Back | Forward || Zoom combo | Zoom out |
> Zoom
> > in || Fit width | Fit page || Browse tool | Zoom tool | Select tool
> > (quite some, yep)
> >
> > Now, basing on facts like:
> > - many people usually confuses the left/right arrows as being the
> > previous/next page actions
> > - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92620
> > - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139825
> > - the Fit * actions are already in the zoom combobox
> > - the new Text Selection tool might be more used (I think)
> > - ... add your opinions here ;)
> >
> > I would like (and I suppose to not be the only one) to give the Okular
> toolbar
> > a new fresh look.
> >
> > My personal idea would be:
> > Open (recent, dropdown)
>
> Okular is a document reader/image viewer that is hardly ever invoked
> from the KMenu, the quick launcher or other application startup
> mechanisms. So the likelihood that people are frequently starting okular
> and then open a document from within okular is rather low. Also Sharad's
> survey showed that only a fourth of the participants rely on the open
> file dialog when it comes to opening documents. In addition to this the
> "Open/Open recent..." menu entry is always at the same place across
> applications and platforms - it's one of the first entries in the "File"
> menu and as such well known and quickly accessible.
>
> To make a long story short, I (once again ;) ) suggest to remove the
> "Open/Open Recent..." toolbar entry.
>
> > || Previous page | Next page ||
>
> The Oxygen icon survey showed that a lot of people mistake the
> "Back/Forward" buttons for the "Previous Page/Next Page" buttons, so I
> second your proposal. Do you plan to display the current page number
> there too?
>
> > Zoom combo | Zoom out | Zoom in ||
>
> OK. (Unfortunately there is no solution yet to control the width of the
> zoom combo :( )
>
> > Browse tool | Zoom tool | Select tool | Text Selection tool
> > with the option of removing one of Zoom tool/Select tool.
>
> We should probably consider putting an "Annotation tool" there as well,
> since it is another exclusive tool mode.
> The Select/Text Selection tools could be combined (I'll have to dig
> deeper in the HIG to see what is suggested in that regard). Then the
> Zoom tool could be removed.
>
> Florian
>
>
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