[Okular-devel] Improvements for review tools

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimarts, 25 d'octubre de 2011, Jirka Lewandowski vàreu escriure:
> Hi,

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.

I disagree, I already said how (i think it is on the bug) i'd like this to be 
solved, single click on the tool, behaves like now, double click, the tool 
gets sticky and is selected until you unselect it.

> 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.
I'd prefer if you leave this for the end.

Sounds good, start small and send patches per feature and not a huge one with 
everything in there (if you send a patch with 1000 lines it is much more 
difficult to review than 10 patches of 100 lines).

Good luck :-)

Albert

> 
> Thanks for feedback,
> 
> Jirka
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