[Okular-devel] Improvements for review tools

[Jirka Lewandowski]

Hi,

I want to propose some modifications of the review tools. I'm new here 
and planning to implement these in the next weeks/months, so if somebody else 
is already working on similar or related things or has suggestions, ideas, 
etc. about it please let me know.
The general idea is, as proposed in [Bug 159601] to make the review tools more 
comfortable, flexible and powerful, so okular can be really used for working 
with texts, in particular on tablet computers. Important steps I'd like to 
take towards this are:

1. Every tool should have a property determining whether, when one action with 
it is finished, it stays selected or not. E.g. the ink tool cannot sensibly be 
used for writing/drawing (with a stylus) into the document at the moment, 
since whenever you  finish a stroke, it becomes deselected and you have to 
select it again.
2. When a tool is selected but mouse actions are performed outside the 
document boundaries, the mouse actions should be interpreted as browsing. When 
reading longer texts and mainly highlighting this saves the user from a lot of 
tool switching between browse and review.
3. Undo for review actions.
4. An option panel for configuring the review tools (basically editing the 
tools.xml).  Or an even easier way to do this, I'm still thinking about that. 
This way, every user can easily adapt okular to their needs: create 
highlighters with various colors, create pens with various thicknesses, etc.
5. I'm thinking about integrating the review tools into the toolbars rather 
than have them as a sidebar, but I'm not sure about the pros and cons of this 
yet.

Thanks for feedback,

Jirka