[okular] [Bug 386578] Request: Allow annotation mode to "stick" for better use with a stylus

[Henrik Fehlauer]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386578

Henrik Fehlauer <rkflx at lab12.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |oliver.sander at tu-dresden.de
                   |                            |, rkflx at lab12.net
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |CONFIRMED
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #1 from Henrik Fehlauer <rkflx at lab12.net> ---
Your use case is already covered by double clicking the tool to make it stick.
This is currently described in Okular's help as follows:

"With a single left mouse button click on an annotation tool button you can use
a tool once. If you e.g. want to highlight all important parts of a text,
activate that tool permanently by double clicking on the tool button. Press the
Esc key or click the tool button again to leave the permanent mode."

That said, I'm still not closing this bug as "WORKSFORME", because there may be
some value in changing it by default to "sticky" in the name of usability:
- Other "tools", e.g. "Browse" or "Selection" already work that way.
- It very easy to deselect the tool again, while it is very hard to discover
the double clicking feature.
- More often than not, you actually want to use the tool more than once, e.g.
when annotating a scientific paper.
- Moving around via the scrollbars or the scroll wheel still works (or the
annotation tool switching could be integrated with the toolbar tool switching;
see also bug 341914)
- Testing macOS Preview, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Foxit Reader, all three
default to "sticky" too (except for the "note" tool).

Adding Oliver to add his two cents, because I believe he's using this feature
with a touchscreen and/or stylus, too.

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