[okular] [Bug 472211] New: Feature Request: please add a way to change the Z-order of annotations

[Joe Breuer]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472211

            Bug ID: 472211
           Summary: Feature Request: please add a way to change the
                    Z-order of annotations
    Classification: Applications
           Product: okular
           Version: 23.04.2
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: NOR
         Component: PDF backend
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: kde at jmbreuer.net
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY

(PDF) Annotations seem to be added to the document in a fixed "new on top"
Z-order. There are no move higher/lower/bring to front/send to back editing
tools (that I could find).

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add a PDF annotation, e.g. a large-ish inline note
2. Add another PDF annotation, e.g. another large-ish inline note, that
overlaps the other one
3. Observe that 

OBSERVED RESULT

The annotation added second stays on top of the one added first for good, no
way to change this.

EXPECTED RESULT

A way to re-order the z stack of annotations to e.g. make text in partially
overlapping notes fully readable (without requiring to click-through to the
annotation content or such). I'm sure there's a few other use cases.

The only remaining way to change the ordering, deleting a lower annotation and
re-creating it on top, is effortful. Especially since there's no cut/copy/paste
of annotation elements, either.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Gentoo Linux 2.13, Kernel 6.1.38-gentoo (64-bit)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9

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