[Okular-devel] Re: page navigation issues in Facing Pages view mode

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Saturday, July 02, 2011, NJuk Njuk va escriure:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:20 PM, NJuk Njuk <njuk.njuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> >> **
> >> 
> >> A Tuesday, June 28, 2011, NJuk Njuk va escriure:
> >> > when navigating pages --- Next Page , Previous Page --- in Facing
> >> > Pages
> >> > 
> >> > view mode, one has to click the appropriate button (or shortcut key)
> >> 
> >> twice
> >> 
> >> > in order to go to the next (or previous) screen of "facing pages". as
> >> > an
> >> > 
> >> > example, if i am viewing pages 1 and 2 simultaneously, then i need to
> >> > 
> >> > specify Next Page twice to get to the view of pages 3 and 4 of my
> >> > 
> >> > document. if i'm trying to quickly step through, say, a long chapter,
> >> 
> >> this
> >> 
> >> > duplication of mouse clicks or shortcut keys gets cumbersome. similar
> >> > 
> >> > viewers, such as acrobat and evince, navigate to the next screen
> >> > (pages
> >> 
> >> 3
> >> 
> >> > and 4 in my example above) when Next Page is specified in Facing Pages
> >> > 
> >> > view mode.
> >> 
> >> Use the next page key on your keyboard and it works. The "Next Page"
> >> action does not behave like that, it literally brings you to the next
> >> page (you can see how the number in the bottom page field increases),
> >> you can argue that's not really useful, i do not really care one way or
> >> another.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Albert
> >> 
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> > 
> > thanks, albert, for pointing out the PageUp / PageDown usage.
> > 
> > when i recently started using okular , my default configuration did not
> > seem to have keyboard shortcuts for moving forward/backward through
> > pages. i tried the typical arrow keys shortcuts, and when they didn't do
> > anything, i went into Settings->Configure Shortcuts....  from there, i
> > saw the Next Page, Previous Page shortcuts, so i mapped them to the
> > arrow keys.
> > 
> > when i look at the shortcut dialog, i see no mapping for the PageUp /
> > PageDown "shortcuts".  what are the associated "actions" which PageUp /
> > PageDown are mapped to?
> 
> interesting that i just saw a bug closed on this same behavior, perhaps as
> a result of this discussion (or not)...
> 
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234177
> 
> as the bug fix describes, the PageUp / PageDown keys work appropriately, as
> do the ArrowUp / ArrowDown keys.  however, as i ask in my previous reply,
> what actions are these keys bound to?  since there is a nice, easy facility
> for shortcut examination & (re-)mapping, it seems as if the user should be
> able to view & modify the shortcuts for this behavior.
> 
> the original bug report's account was not dissimilar to mine, where the
> user remapped certain keys to what seemed like the logical actions ---
> Next Page / Previous Page --- but the behavior was inconsistent from what
> he expected in Facing Pages mode.  i don't recall any other similar
> actions listed in the shortcut dialog.

As said at the moment we do not let you change the behaviour of PageUp/Down 
keys to another keys.

We can discuss if we should tie them to the NextPage/PrevPage actions. I 
really do not have an opinion on that, so i would welcome people reading this 
list voicing their opinions.

Albert
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