[Okular-devel] [okular] [Bug 333977] Add menu entry "Move annotation"

[Lukáš Chmela]

How about Adobe Reader which supports drag&dropping annotations even on
smartphones with no extra keys pressed? It seems to me like no one has ever
wondered about full-page annotations in Adobe. Moreover, you can always use
the scroll wheel, arrows or page up/down keys for navigation within any
document in Okular (I have always used the scroll wheel as it is very
natural and common for all applications in general).

Having used Okular for two years now, it is the first time I see that there
is a "move annotation" feature - completely hidden for me and not only for
me, I guess. It will sound stupid and it surely is but since I only use
Okular on my Linux PC, I was doomed to move the annotations in my smartphone
with Adobe Reader and then send them back to my PC.

Sorry, but moving the annotations, if a drag&drop implementation is really a
"not even by a mistake" change for you, should really be made visible
somehow. Right now, one has to open up the manual and start reading or
longer googling _if it really isn't possible somehow._

I truly feel that some people must have gone out of their minds in the world
of open source projects. Various very useful things here and there including
application settings keep disappearing in favour of clearer menus with only
5 items - New, Open, Save, Close and Help for all the forgotten features
from past versions - in case someone wanted to press three buttons
simultaneously and another one five times just to show the status bar. And
in the case of application settings, we're slowly moving towards "whoever
wants to change this behaviour can do so in the Windows registry-like
dconf". That's where the usability goes? Oh, come on!

The OS community may consist of great minds of countless developers but
absolutely lacks any skilled UI designer. Take the Gimp or Open/Libre Office
as an example - they are both very powerful but are they really effectively
usable for the users whom they are intended to serve? No.