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

[Nathaniel Taylor]

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


Nathaniel Taylor <kden at ntmm.org> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Nathaniel Taylor <kden ntmm org>  2011-12-09 16:14:49 ---

What about a left double-click to do dvi-search?  The existing shift-click
could be kept too, to avoid upsetting people who liked that, or there could be
an option of which to use.  It wouldn't have to do anything in non-dvi files.


I have only small agreement with the (often expressed) idea of it being bad to
have more configurability.  It's worth a lot more for users to be able to have
everything as they want it, for their next x years of work, rather than
worrying about how a dialogue might confuse a new user during their first
hours...  I'm delighted to spend a day getting things just as I want them, /if/
I then can have everything working just right for the coming years and
thousands of hours of use.  A new user could just accept the defaults and not
need even to look at the configuration.

But yes -- I see it could feel a bit strange to have such totally different
uses of middle-click, and a pity to have to lose this new zoom function if one
wants mouse-only dvi-search.

Bizarre though it may sound to some, my needs (and I guess plenty of others too
-- we hear of some under this bug) make such a little detail as a need for 
keyboard+mouse surprisingly important:  it's a trouble when frequently having
to move one hand from a book or pen, to the keyboard, while left-clicking for
dvi search! 

This summer KDE4 had progressed enough to seem worth moving over from KDE3 for
some weeks to give it a good try, instead of the few-hour attempts in previous
years.  It had its definite good points, as well as some unfortunate ones.
Okular had indeed several desirable features, particularly for pdf.   But when
the summer ended and I started working a lot with kile and okular, this
apparently tiny problem really hit; most time since then has been spent in the
old system.  Probably not a typical "user case", but an indication of the
importance of minimising movements for common tasks.

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