[Okular-devel] Re: Efficient revision tools

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Divendres, 28 de gener de 2011, Raffaele Mancuso va escriure:
> Hi all,
> 
> I use okular on a regular-basis and found out that the revision tools are
> quite uncomfortable to use. I need to highlight the text of a pdf file
> continuously, like when you are studying a book and you need to highlight
> the most important thing. The improblem is that i click on the yellow
> highlighter tool in the revision toolbar, use the left-mouse button to
> highlight the text, and then when i release the button the tool is no more
> selected. So to highlight more text I have to go another time in the
> revision toolbar and re-select the yellow highlighter tool. This is
> frustrating when you need to highlight lot of text (like me).
> 
> I propose to not detach the tool when the left mouse button is released.
> Instead leave the tool on and let a right mouse button click release the
> tool. So you can (for example) select the text continuously without go from
> time to time to the revision toolbar.
> 
> We can even make this customizable by a check box in the settings wich let
> the user decide if we should release the tool at LMB click or at RMB click.

You are not the first with this problem, the question is, do you have time and 
knowledge to code a solution?

Albert 

> Cheers,
> Raffaele