| Summary: | Automatic text selection in Okular (instead of choosing “Browse” or “Text Selection” mouse mode) | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] okular | Reporter: | Robert Knight <robertknight> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Okular developers <okular-devel> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | acrylint, dacoex, elvis.angelaccio, i.proudler, job, kolAflash, m.weghorn, micheluzzo, null, oliver.henshaw, rbyshko |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440565 | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Robert Knight
2008-01-12 20:32:37 UTC
Although it would be nice to select one word on double click on it. +1 SumatraPDF (OpenSource) for windows behaves the same. http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ This intelligent behavior is really useful if you have to go trough a pdf, copying some text sections and then move to another place in the pdf. Some more usability suggestions for the selection tool: - using the right mouse button activates the another selection tool (many possibilities: text-selection if browse tool is active, rectangle-selection if text-selection is active, ...) - The shift, alt and crtl keys should be used to switch the selection tool as long as they are pressed. By the way: The table selection tool is a really cool feature I never saw in another pdf viewer! There are two ways we could improve usability regarding text selection: - Make the "Text Selection Tool" the default choice for the button in the toolbar instead of (Rectangle) "Selection" (easy). - Default to selecting text rather than starting in Browse tool mode, or make it automatic (harder). See also Bug 306886 in this context. (In reply to Henrik Fehlauer from comment #3) > There are two ways we could improve usability regarding text selection: > - Make the "Text Selection Tool" the default choice for the button in the > toolbar instead of (Rectangle) "Selection" (easy). > - Default to selecting text rather than starting in Browse tool mode, or > make it automatic (harder). See also Bug 306886 in this context. I recently created a review request for the second approach (easy variant, defaulting to text selection mode): https://phabricator.kde.org/D9336 In the end, it's always somehow a "matter of taste" which mode is "best", so I created that also to receive feedback on what others think and will certainly not be offended in case another decision is taken in the end... @michaelweghorn: Ahh, sorry. I definitely noticed that, but somehow it's still on my list of things to review. I'll try to get back to you once I find the time. (In reply to Henrik Fehlauer from comment #5) > @michaelweghorn: Ahh, sorry. I definitely noticed that, but somehow it's > still on my list of things to review. I'll try to get back to you once I > find the time. Thank you for the reply. It's not urgent in my opinion. One way or the other, I think it would be good to provide the user with a default choice where the most important things "just work" without having to switch between different modes (since quite some people are confused about this and/or don't even know there are different modes at all...). (In reply to Henrik Fehlauer from comment #3) > There are two ways we could improve usability regarding text selection: > - Make the "Text Selection Tool" the default choice for the button in the > toolbar instead of (Rectangle) "Selection" (easy). At least this is done with https://phabricator.kde.org/D21622 I am searching for a bug report where it is suggested that the “Browse” tool should be less stupid and be able to select text when the user clearly tries to do that. I think there was another report about this, but I can find only this one. I extended the title a bit, to mention mouse modes. :) *** Bug 453614 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |