Bug 183774

Summary:	merge presentation and full screen mode
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Marcel Partap <mpartap>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	screenshot of fullscreen mode with minimal bars

Description Marcel Partap 2009-02-09 14:16:30 UTC

Version:           0.8.80 (using 4.2.62 (KDE 4.2.62 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090204)), Gentoo)
Compiler:          x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.29-rc3

Imho the current implementation to have seperate presentation and fullscreen mode is not a good solution: often you need functionality from the other mode and have to switch and fiddle right there in the middle of your presentation. Example: presentation mode GUI is perfectly unobtrusive for presentations but you can't zoom in to highlight a specific detail, nor search or generally navigate easily for that matter. In full screen mode you can search and zoom just fine, and when turning of continuous mode you can flip through the slides as in presentation mode - but you can't get rid of those distracting grey bars at the side. So in my opinion, the user interface should be overhauled to better adapt to the needs of real life professional usage - it's usable already but it can be better. A nice auto-hidable sidebar and putting a presentation/fullscreen mode icon into the toolbar would be a nice start!

Comment 1 Marcel Partap 2009-02-09 14:18:06 UTC

Created attachment 31145 [details]
screenshot of fullscreen mode with minimal bars

Comment 2 Pino Toscano 2009-02-09 14:26:59 UTC

Sorry, but fullscreen mode and presentation mode will not be merged anytime.

Fullscreen mode is just the normal mode, but maximised without window decorations. You can do anything possible in non-fullscreen mode.

In a different way, the presentation mode, as the name says, it is useful just for *presenting* a document. 
If your real problem is the need of zoom and two-pages view in presentation mode, then just ask so, without asking this kind of requests that is like a workaround for that.

Comment 3 Marcel Partap 2009-08-13 11:29:51 UTC

Hey Pino, this might be your personal opinion, and because of the current technical implementation, it might have some justification. However, merging fullscreen and presentation modes would be logical (=> decrease confusion) and less limiting (=> increase usability and usefulness), so imho it should be reopened, even if it is not being worked on straight away.
Does someone else have an opinion on this?

Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2009-08-14 00:17:35 UTC

Yes.

How do you do a transition in full screen (not in presentation mode) that has a scrollbar and you can have half page 1 and half page 2 in screen?
You can't.

That's why presentation and full screen are different things.

Comment 5 Marcel Partap 2009-08-14 00:48:16 UTC

Obviously merging the modes will need an UI refinement. For a good example how a functional, feature rich and STILL out of the way fullscreen gui can be implemented please have a look at the free FastStone image viewer which can be downloaded at http://www.faststone.org. It is a windows application but does run very well under wine.