Queries regarding adding a new 'typewriter' annotation tool to the toolbar

[Albert Astals Cid]

El diumenge, 20 de maig de 2018, a les 11:52:04 CEST, Dileep Sankhla va 
escriure:
> Hi Albert,
> ‌
> 
> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > El divendres, 18 de maig de 2018, a les 17:04:09 CEST, Dileep Sankhla va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > 
> > > I'm working on my GSoC project[0] with my mentor Tobias Deiminger
> > > <haxtibal[at]posteo[dot]de> and I need to add a new 'typewriter' tool to
> > > the annotation toolbar with a new icon and a setting dialogue to
> > 
> > customize
> > 
> > > its font [and font color].
> > > 
> > > I have few things to ask before getting it done and it would be nice if
> > 
> > you
> > 
> > > can reply to any of the queries with your own suggestions.
> > > 
> > > 3. Inline note has a "hover icon" (see tools.xml) which is shown when a
> > > dashed line block is drawn while dragging the mouse to create a note. Do
> > 
> > we
> > 
> > > also need a different hover icon for typewriter or should we get rid of
> > 
> > it?
> > 
> > > In my opinion, we should get rid of it instead of creating a new hover
> > 
> > icon
> > 
> > > for typewriter. What do you say?
> > 
> > Why do you think we should remove a feature we have? What is in your
> > opinion
> > the reason to get rid of it?
> 
> As discussed earlier in a private mail where Tobias CCed you, we are first
> making the text input UI same as that of Inline note. Here you can argue
> that we need the typewriter-hover-icon but when we are going to implement
> the WYSIWYG live editing feature just after, do we still need it? I mean
> yes we will drag the mouse to create a dashed line rectangular box for
> creating annotation on page and it should show the typewriter-hover-icon
> then, but I don't know what kind of hover icon should we design for the
> typewriter? And what if the community selects another approach (see the
> earlier mail in okular-devel with the subject, "FreeText typewriter
> annotation WYSIWYG implementation ideas") where we can use KTextEdit widget
> of fixed dimensions to directly draw a WYSIWYG editor on the page? Hence
> out of this ambiguity, in my opinion, we should get rid of it. Waiting for
> your suggestion.

Are you speaking of not having that for the new tool or removing it 
altogether?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Dileep