[Okular-devel] [Bug 310704] New: feature request: Enhance Annotation search function

[benvanderharg at yandex.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310704

            Bug ID: 310704
          Severity: wishlist
           Version: 0.15.2
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
           Summary: feature request: Enhance Annotation search function
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: benvanderharg at yandex.com
          Hardware: Fedora RPMs
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: general
           Product: okular

Hi, 

Currently I'm using okular as my main pdf reader for academic philosophy papers
and books (PDF files). I often use the annotation feature to make notes while
reading through a document. However, when I read books the list of annotations
soon becomes long and it becomes difficult to find particular notes when I want
to use them while writing or when I want review them.

Okular's review panel does have search function but currently it only seems
possible to search for annotations of a particular type and it doesn't allow a
user to searche the contents of those annotations. So I would like to request
the following feature: That the search function in the review panel is enhanced
so that it can also be used to search the contents of the popup notes. For me
personally that would this feature even more useful than it currently is.

Just to give another example why this would be useful. I'm currently reading
through a scanned e-book which only has embedded image content. So there I use
the 'Blue Polygon' feature to highlight the interesting parts and double-click
those areas to enter my remarks about that passage in the popup note. The
review panel (with 'group by page' and 'group by author' both turned off) just
gives a list of notes with the title line. In order to find a particular note I
had previously written and of which I vaguely remember the content, I can now
only use the tooltips that are displayed when I hover over the individual notes
to find these notes back. But if you have a long list of annotations that does
take a lot of time. So therefore an automatic search function would be useful.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a document with many annotations
2. Enter a keyword in the review panel's search field that you are sure of that
it is in one of the popup notes (let's take the name Ihde as an example)
3. No results are returned (unless the keyword corresponds to a particular
annotation type such as "Line"
Actual Results:  
The search function does not return a list of annotations that contain the name
Ihde.

Expected Results:  
A list of annotations containing the name Ihde.

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