[Okular-devel] How to "fix" review/annotation setting?

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Divendres, 1 de febrer de 2013, a les 00:07:22, Marius Hofert va escriure:
> > El Dijous, 1 de novembre de 2012, a les 22:38:31, Marius Hofert va 
escriure:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am a very happy Okular 0.15.2 user (KDE 4.9.2; under Ubuntu 12.10). I
> > > recently started using the "review" option for annotations. I typically
> > > mostly use the black underlining (press 8). It is quite annoying having
> > > to
> > > activate (by pressing 8) the underlining tool with each sentence one has
> > > to
> > > underline.
> > 
> > Double click on it.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> 
> Hi Albert,
> 
> Well, that's certainly not satisfying, pressing a key is by far faster than
> using the mouse. Also, you'd have to move the mouse back for creating the
> next annotation. And this with every piece of annotation you create...
> 
> Programmatically, I don't see any reason not to adopt my suggestion and
> create a setting which switches on a certain review (like "underlining")
> until it is switched off (the button hit again, for example). This is
> "standard" in any kind of software I am aware of (take, for example, gimp
> and select a drawing tool... you wouldn't like having to select the brush
> with any line you draw, right?)

You are not drawing.

I would not object to a patch where double pressing 8 does the same as double 
clicking on the tool.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Marius
> 
> > > I was wondering if it is possible to activate it via 8, but then keep it
> > > fixed for further underlining operations. By pressing a different tool
> > > (such as '4' for yellow highlighting, it could then be deactivated.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Marius
> 
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