[Okular-devel] Season of KDE -- Okular

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Sunday 13 December 2015, a les 06:16:39, Sumit Sahrawat, Maths & Computing, 
IIT va escriure:
> Well, what about a separate control window, which ends the presentation
> mode when closed?

Let's think about what people want:
 * See current page in one screen (presentation)
 * See some useful information in another screen (time, prev/next page, etc).

If you force them to have a separate control window around, they are losing 
screen state for what they really want to do.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 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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