[Okular-devel] Season of KDE -- Okular

[Sumit Sahrawat, Maths & Computing, IIT (BHU)]

Well, what about a separate control window, which ends the presentation
mode when closed?

On 13 December 2015 at 05:04, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> El Wednesday 09 December 2015, a les 06:45:13, Sumit Sahrawat, Maths &
> Computing, IIT va escriure:
> > On 9 December 2015 at 05:27, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > > Why did you choose the sidebar as a configuration UI? Wouldn't it make
> > > more
> > > sense expanding the existing presentation configuration dialog in the
> > > settings?
> >
> > I chose a sidebar because it will allow real-time control. It only shows
> > when the user has >1 displays, and feels really intuitive, atleast in my
> > head.
>
> But how often do you configure that to give the controls such a prominent
> position in the UI?
>
> In other words, this thing we're doing is not something other people have
> not
> done already (I think at least libreoffice has something similar for
> presentations) and as far as i know none of them present the configuration
> options in such a prominent place as the sidebar.
>
> >
> > Suppose the main okular window is on one display, and the user wants to
> see
> > a dashboard on the second display, and the slides on the third display.
> > If we add a sidebar to the main window, which has three buttons for each
> > display (slides, dashboard, nothing), we can provide a flexible and
> > intuitive control mechanism.
> > In addition, each fullscreen display (slideshow/dashboard) will have a
> > button to switch between the two modes, and there is already a button for
> > closing the widget.
> >
> > We also provide some of these settings through the presentation config
> > dialog. What do you think should be added there?
>
> Everything, it's not a configuration dialog otherwise ;)
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
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-- 
Sumit Sahrawat,

Junior - Mathematics and Computing,
Indian Institute of Technology - BHU,
Varanasi, India
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