[okular] [Bug 399118] New: Small feature suggestion: ability to remove the most-left pane in okular

[shevegen]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399118

            Bug ID: 399118
           Summary: Small feature suggestion: ability to remove the
                    most-left pane in okular
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: PDF backend
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: shevegen at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

Hello okular devs,

I compiled the most recent okular from source and this time everything works
fine (in the past, okular had difficulty finding proper path to the theme or
the  code that handles opening .pdf, which had to do with me compiling okular
into a standalone directory rather than with the /usr/ prefix; the /usr/ prefix
gives me less problems in the long run, so I switched to using it again for
larger stacks, including KDE).

The tarball URL I used was:

https://download.kde.org/stable/applications/18.08.1/src/okular-18.08.1.tar.xz

(I mention this just in the event that it may be relevant to the report here.)


Okular works fine and opens .pdf files too but I would like a bit more control
over how much space the main .pdf file at hand receives.

For example if we are on the very left hand side with the mouse cursor; and
then click right mouse button for the context menu, we get a check button "Show
Text"; and we can Small Icons / Medium Icons / Large Icons.

I personally do not need this pane and I would like to have a simple option to
get rid of it.

Thus I would like to make two suggestions:

(1) Please consider adding another option in the small widget that pops up as
context menu, with an option to disable that side pane (or, if you want to, you
can minimize it to something like 2-4 pixel or so; that may work as well and
people could click on it again with the mouse cursor)

(2) Provide some additional option in the preferences to not show the side
pane(s).

Reason why I would like to have this:

- The .pdf viewer I often use to just look at documents, including university
documents. So to me the major part is the content on the .pdf; the presentation
aid in okular is not so important to me. Thus I would like to be able to tell
okular something like "please show me less non-pdf related widgets/content", so
as to maximize the area for the .pdf. Fullscreen is not a good option for me,
though, as I often have many more things open; I just want to have it fairly
big there, but not necessarily fullscreen. (I admittedly have a very strange
workflow).

Anyway, please do feel free to close this issue request at any moment in time,
for whatever reason.

Cheers!

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