[Okular-devel] Re: Efficient revision tools

[Raffaele Mancuso]

That's not the kind of answer you should give to an end user who use your
application and is giving you a suggestion.
If i write to the okular developers list, I assume to talk with the people
who develop/have developed okular. So I'm saying that when you develop
okular and implement new features, you may also consider to implement this
one. Or are you saying that no one can make a suggestion to you if he does
not have the patch ready? If i had the "time and knowledge to code a
solution", wouldn't I had come here with the solution?
An "Unfortunately we can no more code new features to okular due to lack of
time. If you want, you can help us and do it yourself because it's open
source" would have been more than fine to me. I'm not requiring anyone to
code anything for me, I'm only suggesting to the people who develop a
software how to make that software even better. But your answer sounds more
like "Hey, what do you want? I have already coded a lot, and for free! Why
in the hell don't you do so too???". And that kind of a "do it yourself"
answer to a suggestion is all but appropriate. And no, I have not the patch
ready, nor for okular neither for your inappropriate answers.

2011/1/28 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>

> 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
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