[Okular-devel] [Bug 183730] New: Wish: Improved bookmark listing in sidebar and in menu and Improved sidebar

[k whiskerz]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183730

           Summary: Wish: Improved bookmark listing in sidebar and in menu
                    and Improved sidebar
           Product: okular
           Version: 0.8
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: okular-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: kwhiskerz at gmail.com


Version:           0.8 (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

Since discovering okular, I am ecstatic about reading pdf and odt documents (I
even convert project gutenberg texts into odt immediately), now that I can
bookmark the files. As a result, I generally have at least a half dozen books
on the go at any given time. This has made me recognize the limitations of the
bookmark display in the sidebar.

I am not sure how an improvement could be engineered, but the present system of
showing the path to a file and the bookmarks under it is tedious. One has to
shrink the reading pane and scroll the bookmark display sideways to see the
path, click on the '+' to see the bookmark, etc.

I think it would be more elegant to have some sort of drop-down menu item, or
pop-out from the frame style (see next paragraph), with the path, document name
and bookmarks, so as not to take away valuable window real estate.

Also, the sidebar is kludgey. It is huge (yes, I know I can, thankfully, make
it disappear). Perhaps it could pop in and out of the side edge of the window
frame, like konqueror and digikam do with its menus.

I hope these suggestions will trigger some thought into making this very useful
application yet more pleasurable to use.

PS: I don't use adobe reader and never really have, so I do not put any value
in trying to mimic their methods. Something unique and based on bauhaus
(function defines form), rather than copying a market leader in the vain
attempt at increasing usefulness by simply coping an old paradigm, are not my
wish or desire. And kde4 is about breaking out of paradigms! What a success so
far.


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