Bug 220218

Summary: Separate icons by default for the rectangle and text selection tools
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Grósz Dániel <groszdanielpub>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: aspotashev, null, oliver.henshaw
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Grósz Dániel 2009-12-27 04:32:32 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

Currently by default the rectagle and text selection tools are combined with rectange being the default. The dropdown appears only after delay even if you click on the arrow making some users not even notice that text selection is possible; most users woud probably prefer text selection.

Since there is enough space on the toolbar, in my opinion there is no point at all in combining them by default besides copying Adobe.
Comment 1 Oliver Henshaw 2010-02-11 14:50:06 UTC 
An alternative would be to make the behaviour of the selection tools icon more discoverable, as per the suggestion in bug 194805 comment 3
Comment 2 null 2018-01-09 21:27:18 UTC 
I don't think there is enough room (as in screen real estate, but also when looking from a usability perspective, i.e. keeping the number of buttons to choose from low) to have two separate buttons.

Note that you can always configure the toolbar to show both buttons, if you wish so.

We should rather fix the root cause, i.e. this:

> most users would probably prefer text selection
This is tracked in Bug 155563.

> The dropdown appears only after delay
This was fine in KDE3 (you could move the mouse down do get the menu immediately), nobody brought this back so far, though. However, you could also just use the Tools menu to get immediately to the tool in question.