[Okular-devel] [Bug 233182] New: Restore "construct again the same annotation" behaviour.

[Ismael Barros]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233182

           Summary: Restore "construct again the same annotation"
                    behaviour.
           Product: okular
           Version: 0.10.2
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: okular-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: razielmine at gmail.com


Version:           0.10.2 (using 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2), Chakra)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.32-ARCH

Lately I've been stying a lot of large PDF documents, and I found the current
workflow that the annotator imposes very awkward:
  1.- Select highlight tool
  2.- Highlight text
  3.- Select highlight tool
  4.- Highlight text
  5.- Select highlight tool
  6.- Highlight text
      ...
  N.- Moonwalk away

A more proper workflow would be:
  1.- Select highlight tool
  2.- Highlight text
  3.- Highlight text
  4.- Highlight text
      ...
  N.- Unselect highlight tool


I'm aware this was the old beaviour and people complained because they needed
to unselect the tool to edit an annotation (#155668). I think there are ways to
solve both these problems.

For example, I see no reason why we shouldn't allow the regular right-click
context menu on annotation mode. AFAIK, the only place where right-click is
used while on annotation mode is with the "blue polygon" tool, to close the
shape, but I think it would be maybe more intuitive to close it with a double
click (tools like inkscape support both right and double click to close the
shape). Anyway, it would be okay to hijack the regular right-click operation
*while* drawing the shape, but keep it *before* starting to draw it. For the
rest of the annotation tools, maintaining the right-click context menu while
not drawing would be OK IMHO.

BTW, while we have selected an annotation tool, shouldn't we deselect the
"browse tool" button? Mouse doesn't behave like on browse mode, so the button
shouldn't be selected. I also would be awesome to change the cursor's shape
depending on the annotation tool.

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