[okular] [Bug 425438] About the new UI of Annotations tools.

[Felipe]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425438

--- Comment #7 from Felipe <felipehw at gmail.com> ---
> I guess you mean looking at the order of the icons of the old toolbar, because I think that the shortcut was not visible on the toolbar.

Yes, I mean looking at the order of the icons of the (always present) old
toolbar. This is useful because the default shortcuts are the number keys at
the same order of the icons. So, with just a glance ... I recognize the
selected tool and the order to use the correct shortcut to select another. But,
anyway, if I pass the mouse over the icon ... it shows the name and shortcut
(e.g.: `Pop-up Note [1]`, `Inline Note [2]`)

> Well, actually only two icons: type and color. The old toolbar did provide only these two pieces of information.

The new UI seems disruptive/distracting to me because:
- I can't look just at the predefined tools that I care about.
- I have to search amid other icons the values "color" and "type" just to know
what I'm using.

The old toolbar is cleaner because it only shows me the predefined tools that I
care about. And it "shows" (by icon order) the shortcuts to access then.

> You can move the toolbar on the left or right side of the window and save vertical space. Though when moved to the left it will be to the right of the sidebar.

Thanks for the information! The only caveat is that the old was a floating bar
... so it doesn't take horizontal space of the document. The horizontal space
is useful when you use half of the screen to Okular and the other half to
LibreOffice. But, I'm happy to know that I can keep my vertical space.

> I think we should try to keep a better compatibility with the old toolbar to avoid breaking the users habit. To sum it, I think that to solve your issue we need to:
> - create a new quick annotation toolbar that could be kept always visible
> - assign a shortcut to show/hide this toolbar
> What do you think?

The only "big" feature that I would miss is that with the old bar the default
shortcuts to my "predefined tools" were the brutally simple number keys. These
tools are used many, many times in a few minutes ... and clear and simple
default shortcuts of just 1 key is very useful. The new UI reserve, by default,
these "number keys" shortcuts to peruse among the configurations of the
annotation tools and demands the combination "Alt + number" to alternate
between the "predefined tools".

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