Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.5) Installed from: SuSE RPMs Note: I haven't seen okular in action, only kpdf, but judging from okular.org screenshots I guess most of my comments still apply. Firstly, my assumption is that users (at least I do) want to see as much text on the screen as possible. Thus I turn off all side-bars and stuff because it's distracting and use the toolbar or menu for most actions (or for turning on the sidebar). And to that I have the following comments: 1. There's missing an important piece of information - page counter (current/#). It's a critical piece of info and yet it's only visible with side-bar on which unfortunately brings a significant amount of unwanted UI stuff. I do not have a solution to that, the only space-saving solution I can think of is including page combo-box in the toolbar, which I'm not sure belongs there. 2. Zooming combo-box doesn't visually fit into the toolbar, it's basically ugly between all those nice buttons. I'd suggest to make some square widget from it to fit into the rest (not sure which though). 3. Several buttons in the toolbar are IMHO superfluous, there are 6 related to zoom, not sure if all of them are needed. Not sure if Recent Documents button is needed too. This doesn't matter if there is no text below buttons, so this is not really important (but still might be worth thinking).
Some (most?) of the screenshots on the site still show an iterface about 4 months old. > 1. There's missing an important piece of information - page counter > (current/#). It's a critical piece of info and yet it's only visible with > side-bar on which unfortunately brings a significant amount of unwanted UI > stuff. I do not have a solution to that, the only space-saving solution I can > think of is including page combo-box in the toolbar, which I'm not sure > belongs there. We already fixed this issue, with a small bar in the bottom part of the content area, always visible and as thin as possible. > 2. Zooming combo-box doesn't visually fit into the toolbar, it's basically > ugly between all those nice buttons. I'd suggest to make some square widget > from it to fit into the rest (not sure which though). > > 3. Several buttons in the toolbar are IMHO superfluous, there are 6 related to > zoom, not sure if all of them are needed. Not sure if Recent Documents button > is needed too. This would need some discussuion with our usability expert Florian. > This doesn't matter if there is no text below buttons, so this is not really > important (but still might be worth thinking). IIRC for KDE 4 the preferred way for toolbars is text below icons.
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> 3. Several buttons in the toolbar are IMHO superfluous, there are 6 related > to zoom, not sure if all of them are needed. Now there are only 3 "elements" related to zooming: Zoom in, Zoom out and the zoom combobox. > Not sure if Recent Documents button is needed too. Removed as well from the default toolbar.
Point 1. and 3. were fixed. About 2., basically all the document viewer (KPDF, evince, xpdf, Acrobat Reader, just to cite the most known for GNU/Linux) have a zoom combobox in the toolbar, so Okular will have it too.