[okular] [Bug 417527] New: Optimizing bookmark workflow: named bookmark

[Pascalio]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417527

            Bug ID: 417527
           Summary: Optimizing bookmark workflow: named bookmark
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
                OS: All
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: pascalio at protonmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

Bookmarks are a decisive element of a scholar's/heavy-reader's workflow. Okular
is packed with good features, but although it does have bookmarks, they aren't
very practical to use: when you create them, they silently populate your
bookmark registry and you can't name them on creation. If you want to rename
it, you must
1. leave the panel you were in (thumbnails, content,...)
2. find it within the list by remembering its page number (can be easy or
really taxing)
3. alternatively, if you remember the logical ordering of your bookmark, you
can find by counting
4. then there is no shortcut, no double-clicking will select its text for
editing; you must right-click and choose "rename".
5. Then you may go back to the revision or content panel were using previously.

This workflow isn't optimized, especially for those who need to deal with very
long books, and who would need to find arbitrary content easily.

Hence my proposals for improvement of the UI. Maybe some people are very happy
that bookmarks stack silently in their panel with page number as title, and
these people would prefer to keep somewhat of the same behaviour... Here are my
solutions:

1. **The ideal one**: 
    - On creating new bookmark, a *rename* bubble pops from the left side
panel.
    - The current panel view is not changed: if on *thumbnails*, it remains so,
a.s.o
    - rename bubble's text is already selected and if user presses enter, it
saves the bookmark with default name (page number). So "quick bookmarks" are
just one keypress further, which is fairly negligeable. Otherwise, we just
start typing the name, and enter.
2. **The diplomatic one**:
    - Have 2 commands:
        - "add quick bookmark" (current ctrl+b)
        - "add named bookmark", (let's say alt+b), pops a regular dialogbox to
name the new bookmark.
    - The users can hence choose one or the other according to their ways and
customs.
3.  **The rough one**:
    - Just rewrite the new bookmark command to display a dialogbox.
    - Might be easier to implement than the bubbly "ideal" one, but much more
intrusive.

Optimizing the workflow in one of these ways would be awesome. What do you
think?

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