[Okular-devel] [Bug 306844] synctex inverse search no longer works; Okular doesn't respond to Shift+Click

[Christoph Lange]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306844

--- Comment #9 from Christoph Lange <langec at web.de> ---
Thanks, Michael! – below please find a reply to your comment.

But first of all, note that my bug report turned out to be invalid (sorry!), or
at least its title and description should be changed. It turned out that I had
the text selection tool (Ctrl+4) enabled when the “bug” occurred. With the hand
tool (Ctrl+1) it works.

Now the question is whether that's a bug or a feature. One might argue that for
navigating through a document, including navigating from the document to its
source code, the hand tool is the right one. On the other hand, does
Shift+Click do anything useful with the other tools? If not, one could consider
enabling inverse search in these cases as well, as Shift+Click wouldn't shadow
any keybindings recognized by these other tools. – For example, I tried the
selection tool (Ctrl+3) and had Shift pressed while selecting. This didn't
change the selection behavior (as it would do in some other programs, e.g.
selecting squares instead of rectangles – which of course wouldn't make that
much sense in PDFs).

(In reply to comment #8)
> Okular::Document::processSourceReference: No such file:
> "/home/clange/tmp/./test-pdf.tex"
Oh – sorry, …
> Was your original document located in the directory indicated above?
… but, indeed. I forgot that the source file location ends up hard-coded in the
sync file. I should have run my test in a directory that exists everywhere,
e.g. /tmp.

Good point about console error messages: It might have helped my investigations
if I had got any, but I didn't.

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