[okular] [Bug 453907] Provide a visual hint if annotations are combined with pop-up notes

[wilfried.philips at wphilips.eu]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453907

--- Comment #4 from wilfried.philips at wphilips.eu <wilfried.philips at wphilips.eu> ---
(In reply to Florine W. Dekker from comment #3)
> (In reply to wilfried.philips at wphilips.eu from comment #2)
> > *snip*
> 
> When you double-click a highlighted part to add an annotation, which tool do
> you have selected? If you have the highlighter tool enabled while
> double-clicking a highlight, and you slightly move your mouse during the
> double click (e.g. due to imprecision, or perhaps tremors, ticks, etc.), you
> will actually create a new highlight and immediately edit its annotation.
> Normally, after you create a highlight, Okular switches from the highlight
> tool to the browse tool, so that this doesn't happen, but if you reflexively
> always enable the highlight tool and also don't keep your mouse still while
> adding annotations, that could very well explain what's going on. (I'm of
> course not trying to say that *you* are doing something wrong, but just
> hypothesising about what could be happening.)
> 
I changed the transparancy of the annotations to double check the following::
It seems to happen mostly when the annotation tool remains selected instead 
of going to browsing mode. (But this is the way of working that is least
cumbersome...)

So your analysis is probably correct. 



> If that's not the case, or if you're not sure, you could try changing the
> opacity of your highlighter tool to a lower value. Say, 50% or even 10%.
> Just temporarily while you investigate. This way, when two highlights
> overlap, you can immediately recognise it because the overlapping part will
> be darker.

It helps, but even then knowing where to click is tricky. I have noticed a few
cases 
where I see a larger annotated area (correct one) and then a smaller one
(created accidentally) 
where the annotation is sometimes attached to the large one, sometimes the
small one.

A visual indication (as requested in this ticket) would be essential and
preferably these would be editable 
by a simple double click (like now, except that people would have an indication
on where to click).

I think the overly sensitive mouse issue should also be solved so as to avoid
having to switch between annotation and browse mode: 
 when clicking occurs in a yellow area do not create a new annotation  but use
the one under the cursor. This is of course a different issue
than in this ticket. 

> 
> If that doesn't help either, I recommend you open a new bug report (after
> searching for duplicates), since *this* bug report, while it may be useful
> for finding the cause of your issue, is of course a separate issue.

Sure, I understand that.

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