[okular] [Bug 519410] New: Okular does not handle Radio-Button Choice Menus in PDF Forms correctly

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519410

            Bug ID: 519410
           Summary: Okular does not handle Radio-Button Choice Menus in
                    PDF Forms correctly
    Classification: Applications
           Product: okular
      Version First 26.04.0
       Reported In:
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: PDF backend
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: mail+kde at branleb.de
  Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 191796
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=191796&action=edit
An example Form (only radio buttons relevant for this bug)

SUMMARY
A PDF Form with a Radio-Button Group as Choices does not behave correctly when
the form is filled out using okular.

There are serveral issues:
- When selecting a radio button, the other buttons in the group don't get
deselected.
- Re-Selecting the default chosen - or any other previously selected - after
selecting any other  option seems impossible (never works).
- The "form edit" and "normal mode" display state of the form is sometimes not
in sync/not the same state
- multiple elements are shown as "chosen" although only one should be choseable

Overall the radio button implementation seems broken.

The default presentation might even not be correct (this part might relate to 
Bug #519407 as the errorneous default display is kind of the same).

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open a PDF File with a choice menu with radio buttons (cf attached file)
2. Choose any option
3. Choose any other option
4. Choose any of the options prior selected options

OBSERVED RESULT
1. Default display works in some forms - not in others. E.g. sometimes "all"
options are shown as "chosen"
2. Selecting in form edit mode does not show in "normal mode"
3. Re-selected a prior choosen option does not work

EXPECTED RESULT
1. Only Default/chosen Option is always displayed as chosen, others are NOT
displayed as selected
2. Same option is shown selected in both form edit and normal mode
3. One can selected any option back and forth and it works.

(cf. firefox internal pdf viewer, there everything works as expected.)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260419
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.25.0
Qt Version: 6.11.0
Kernel Version: 6.19.12-1-vanilla (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.2 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics

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