[okular] [Bug 409551] New: Usability bug: make "Save/Save As" dialogs use their own process

[avlas]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409551

            Bug ID: 409551
           Summary: Usability bug: make "Save/Save As" dialogs use their
                    own process
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: jsardid at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

Let me give a bit of context on the use case.

For research I frequently open PDF articles from the browser, take a look to
them and decide (or not) saving them for further reading and/or later
consultation and reference. Near 100% of the times that decision happens when I
am not at page 1, so details of authors and title are not accessible
(information I need to organize the bunch of PDFs I have).

Therefore I need to close the Save/Save As dialog opened by intuition, go back
to page 1, and proceed to save (again). If this would happen once, I would not
care, but when this happens tens of times every day, it feels a bit unpleasant
and breaks the flow.

I am not sure about the technicalities, but I think this could be solved if the
"Save/Save As" dialog would be in its own process, so even if open, I would
still be able to scroll up the main window that appears behind.

This is how it works in PDFs opened in the embedded viewer in Chromium for
instance, and that is the feature request here. 

This may be a bug against kio instead of okular, not sure.

Perhaps other use cases (other applications such as Kate, and other dialogs
such as Open) might also benefit from this feature as well if extended to them.

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