[Okular-devel] [okular] [Bug 318078] New: PDF-links don't work as expected in text selection mode.

[Marc Wäckerlin]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318078

            Bug ID: 318078
           Summary: PDF-links don't work as expected in text selection
                    mode.
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305592
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: PDF backend
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: marc at waeckerlin.org

There has been a «design decision» to disable links when text selection mode is
enabled. This is extremely unintuitive A lot of user get confused when
hyperlinks don't work as they would expect and there is no hint why hyperlinks
don't work.

Best solution: Reenable hyperlinks even in text selection mode.

Other possibility: At least show a message on the document (e.g. as hover-text
on the hyperlinks) saying that hyperlinks were disabled due to text selection
mode an that they'll work again as soon as the user reverts to browser mode.

As you can see in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305592 people are
confused and don't understand why links don't work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open document with links
2. chose text selection mode
3. click an link (try all three mouse buttons, even with
shift/controlm/alt-key)
Actual Results:  
nothing happens

Expected Results:  
jump to the link target

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