[Okular-devel] [Bug 311034] New: default search result and highlight colours are the same - usability problem

[Stephan Wassipaul]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311034

            Bug ID: 311034
          Severity: normal
           Version: 0.14.3
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
           Summary: default search result and highlight colours are the
                    same - usability problem
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: wassipaul at gmx.at
          Hardware: Mageia RPMs
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: general
           Product: okular

The default highlighting colour is yellow, but the default colour to mark
search results is also yellow. This makes search results hard to locate when
they are surrounded by highlighted text, and impossible to locate when they
were themselves previously highlighted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Highlight text in a document
2. Go to a different page of the document
3. Search for a word contained in or close to the text you just highlighted
Please also see the screenshots attached, they illustrate the problem nicely.
Actual Results:  
The word will not stand out, you will have to search for the word manually.

Expected Results:  
The default colour for either highlighting text or search results should be
altered.

I struggled a bit with reporting this bug, as it involves 2 different problems:

1) Search results surrounded by highlighted text are hard to locate
2) Search results within highlighted text are impossible to locate

The proper solution for 2) would probably be to change the colour used for
search results under certain conditions, as Firefox (switches colour between
text and background) does. This would solve 2) also in weird cases (searching
on documents which have a background color that equals the color used for
hightlighting search results). It does not, however, adress 1). The proper
solution for 1) would probably be to reserve one colour (+invertion of it)
exclusively for marking search highlights, thus not allowing a user to change
the colour of an annotation to this reserved colour.
However, changing default colours is probably good enough to solve 1) and 2)
for almost all use cases.

Legal note: The document shown in the screenshots is a judgement of the ECJ and
thus not protected by copyright. It may thus be replicated here.

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