Bug 194805

Summary: Think if Okular selection drop down button discoverability can be improved
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Adam <adreeve>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: adreeve, jordonwii, m.weghorn, oliver.henshaw
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Adam 2009-06-01 00:36:47 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.85)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

When clicking on the selection tools button with the little down facing arrow nothing happens. I assume there's supposed to be a drop down menu where I can change between the text selection and the rectangular selection mode.
Comment 1 Adam 2009-06-01 00:40:35 UTC 
Ahh never mind. After a bit of searching I found out you have to hold the button down for a while and the menu comes up eventually. I think it would be nice if either the rectangle or text selection tool was already selected, then the menu would come up immediately, but I guess that's a qt issue rather than okular. This can be changed to invalid.
Comment 2 Pino Toscano 2009-06-01 00:42:49 UTC 
The dropdown is not immediate, but delayed.
This way, you can select a text tool, and selecting it more times without the
need to open the dropdown again. This is a behaviour we implemented, not a Qt issue.
Comment 3 Oliver Henshaw 2010-02-11 14:48:19 UTC 
Could this be made more discoverable by having the drop down arrow a separate interaction area, and one which makes the menu come up immediately?
Comment 4 jordonwii 2011-12-22 23:32:40 UTC 
Given #1 & #2, should this bug be marked as fixed, or are there plans to make the menu more immediate?
Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2011-12-22 23:46:55 UTC 
No plan really, we are using a standard component, e.g. kmail uses the same in its toolbar, on the other hand, konqueror has a different, maybe more intuitive implementation, i'll leave it open as a wish