[Okular-devel] [okular] [Bug 334735] Okular review/annotation tools lack basic text tools (delete/insert/replace text)

[Sergio]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334735

Sergio <sergio.callegari at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Okular review/annotation    |Okular review/annotation
                   |tools lack essential        |tools lack basic text tools
                   |features for real-world     |(delete/insert/replace
                   |review processes            |text)

--- Comment #2 from Sergio <sergio.callegari at gmail.com> ---
As the feature request was already detailing, standard editorial practices
require that a reviewer is able to: (i) mark parts of text that need to be
deleted; (ii) provide text that needs to be inserted, together with an
insertion point; (iii) mark parts of text that need to be replaced and the
replacement text. I do not know how to say it, but this in my view is *atomic*.
 None of the points makes great sense without the others.

So, would it be OK to simply rename the feature request avoiding the dangerous
'real-world' keyword to have it valid? Something like

"Okular review/annotation tools lack basic text tools (delete/insert/replace
text)"

As a matter of fact, also the changes that are actually asked for in okular are
tightly interconnected

1. Put a red strikeout in the default palette of annotation tools as 'delete
text'. This is readily available. It only needs to be pre-placed in the
palette, so that the user does not need to configure it himself.
2. Pre-define a little 'caret-like' geometrical shape and put it in the default
palette of annotation tools as 'insert text', so that the point of the caret
goes where the mouse pointer is at click time. Geometrical shapes are readily
available, but only ellipse and rectangle are actually there. The caret needs
to be provided.
3. Put in the default palette a shorthand to do 1 and 2 simultaneously and call
it 'replace text'.

How the things are not independent one from the other should be evident from
point 3.

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