[Okular-devel] [Bug 157262] Should not say "Back/Forward in Document"

[Florian Grässle]

> On the "Go"-menu, it should not say "Back/Forward in Document". It is
> confusing because it depends on which direction you arrived at the 
> current page.
> 
> Instead, it could say "Forward in page history" and "Backward in page
> history". Or "Back" and "Next", as I have seen in web-browsers.

I agree there, the current oxygen icons aren't helping either, so 
distinguishing between "back one page" and "back in the browsing 
history" should be as concise as possible. However I have a feeling that 
the wording of "Forward in page history" and "Backward in page history" 
could be improved as the entries consist of too many elements that 
together may lead to confusion. In addition translations may get fairly 
long. What about "Step backward" and "Step forward" instead?


> ------- Additional Comments From toscano.pino tiscali it  2008-02-06 16:37 -------
> I'm not sure to agree, the "in Document" suffix was added to
> distinguish those actions from the Konqueror actions. Otherwise,
> you'd see two "Back/Forward" actions when using Okular embedded in
> Konqueror, one of them for the Konqueror history, and the other one
> for Okular.

Maybe including menu entries from embedded kparts in Konqueror isn't 
such a good idea then. I am rather tired and frustrated that interaction 
design decisions regarding Okular as a document reader have to be plain 
bad because of possible issues with the kpart in Konqueror. This leads 
to some pretty bad wording in menu entries but also a poor choice of 
shortcuts.

Florian