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

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Fri Mar 13 21:03:03 UTC 2015


El Divendres, 13 de març de 2015, a les 20:48:07, Lukáš Chmela va escriure:
> 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.

Do you really think that posting a rant here about how silly everyone is and 
has lost their mind is going to get you taken into consideration?

My suggestion, rant in your blog and then come back a few months later with a 
constructive attitude.

Best Regards,
  Albert


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