[Okular-devel] [Bug 155515] Switch to tabbed interface

[=JeffH]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155515


=JeffH <kdebugs at kingsmountain.com> changed:

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--- Comment #48 from =JeffH <kdebugs kingsmountain com>  2012-02-08 16:39:53 ---
Hi guys,

For myself, I can't make use of Okular until it has a tabbed window view.

In my work, I have to read and refer to tons of papers, documents,
specifications in parallel, and if each one were open in an individual window,
it'd mess up my techniques for managing my desktop and be unworkable.

For now, I use acroread.

In fact, a while back (2 years?), the acroread folks tried to make the Linux
acroread version not have a tabbed view (as it apparently is on Windows now)
and there was a revolt -- I rolled back to Acroread v7 and sat pat until they
fixed this. This was all documented on the adobe forums IIRC. Anyway, they did
fix it.

but I'd like to move off of using acroread if I could and use something open
source, but can't/won't until it supports my needs.

these needs are:

tabbed view  (MUST)

 "recent files" scrollable menu with unlimited # of entries (user-settable
limit) (SHOULD, but almost a MUST)  acroread limits it to 50, which is too few
for me.

multi-entry selection in "recent files" menu to enable batch file opening
(SHOULD)

de- and re-attachable tabs a la Chrome & Firefox browsers (SHOULD)

View splitting -- i.e. being able to multiply horizontally split (individually
scrollable) the view on a document in order to poke thru different portions
simultaneously (it boggles me to this day that this feature isn't more widely
available across all apps on today's systems) (SHOULD)

(actually, I'm somewhat puzzled/dismayed that the underlying windowing system
doesns't automatically provide for tabs and split view and such for all apps...
sigh)

I note that status on this bug is "wishlist" and very low priority -- but i
really hope it can be changed and addressed such that we can at least get
simple tabs

thanks,

=JeffH

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