[Okular-devel] [Bug 282930] Make middle mouse button activate the inverse search feature

[tsc25 at cantab.net]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282930


tsc25 at cantab.net changed:

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--- Comment #6 from  <tsc25 cantab net>  2011-12-01 12:09:27 ---
One the main things I use okular for is proof-reading LaTeX documents on a
tablet PC. Inverse search is essential for quickly locating and correcting
small mistakes in the source.

However, with no physical keyboard available, the shift-click binding is
unusable on a tablet. (Mouse-only bindings are easy on a tablet, keyboard-only
bindings are still usable via an on-screen keyboard, hence any action that can
be accessed via a menu and perhaps some typing is usable. But keyboard+mouse
bindings are essentially impossible to use on a tablet.)

So the choice of inverse-search binding, and the complete lack of
customisability, makes okular a major step backwards from kdvi for me.

There are numerous other ways to zoom using only the mouse (menu bar, toolbar
buttons), so the middle-click+drag zooming is not essential to using okular on
a tablet. But there is *no* way of doing inverse search other than shift+click.
So making the inverse-search binding shift-click cripples Okular on tablets.
Whereas changing the inverse-search binding to middle-click, or at least
allowing it to be customised, would allow *both* zooming and inverse-search to
be used on a tablet.

You've closed this with WONTFIX, and given it only "wishlist" severity. But,
for my usage at least, this is not just 'nice to have', but a major usability
issue.

These days, you need to think about other computing form-factors than the
standard PC. KDE itself is already doing so e.g. with its plasma tablet
interface. You need to think about this in Okular too.

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