[okular] [Bug 409932] New: Allow to open a link using text search

[Raphaël Jakse]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409932

            Bug ID: 409932
           Summary: Allow to open a link using text search
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: raphael.kde at jakse.fr
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY

I recently discovered a nice feature of Web browsers. One can select a link by
searching for its text and hitting escape. Then, hitting Enter opens the link,
Ctrl+Enter opens the link in a new tab and Shift+Enter opens the link in a new
window. I find this is a nice usability feature and a nice to have for
navigating inside PDFs in Okular without the mouse.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open a PDF with a table of contents.
2. Hit CTRL+F and type a part of a title.
3. The text in a link is highlighted. Hit escape.

OBSERVED RESULT

The search box is closed.

EXPECTED RESULT

1) The search box is closed.
2) If such a thing is possible in Okular, the link is selected (if not, this
would be another nice-to-have thing, so (shift+)tab can be used to navigate
through links, let me know if I should report another whish here). 
3) Hitting enter activates the link in which the highlighted text is.

I don't know how text search and highlighting are implemented in Okular, but I
suspect it could amount to: on Enter pressed, search for the first link in the
active highlighted text. If such a link exists, activate it. It would also
allow "clicking" on footnotes with the keyboard.

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