[okular] [Bug 394917] New: Confusing message about ‘internal storage’

[Erik Quaeghebeur]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394917

            Bug ID: 394917
           Summary: Confusing message about ‘internal storage’
           Product: okular
           Version: 1.3.3
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: PDF backend
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: kde at equaeghe.nospammail.net
  Target Milestone: ---

I opened a pdf file with a form that I had filled with an earlier version of
okular and got the message

"This document contains annotations or form data that were saved internally by
a previous Okular version. Internal storage is no longer supported.
Please save to a file in order to move them if you want to continue to edit the
document."

It is not clear at all what is meant by ‘internal storage’. I first thought it
was ‘internal to the pdf’. It is only after searching on-line that it referred
to ‘internal to okular configuration files’ *external* to the file. (I didn't
even know okular did that. It explains a lot of trouble I had with filling in
forms with okular and not being able to get rid of ‘zombie data’.)

The current message is totally confusing and should be replaced with something
that is not confusing and also indicates where the data is stored ‘internally’.

I suggest something like the following:

"For this document, annotations or form data were saved by a previous Okular
version to the local file "/home/user/.local/share/okular/file.pdf.xml". This
type of storage is no longer supported. Please save to a file in order to
preserve the annotations and form data; these will be saved inside the pdf file
itself."

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