Bug 264925

Summary:	Highlight on right-click
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde-2011.08, raffamaiden
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Dotan Cohen 2011-01-31 10:56:28 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

Please add an option to use the right mouse button to highlight text. I do much highlighting of the PDF files that I open, and constantly having to select the highlight tool is a pain.

Thanks!

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 raffamaiden 2011-01-31 12:44:18 UTC

>I do much
>highlighting of the PDF files that I open, and constantly having to select the
>highlight tool is a pain.

I have submitted a patch which will allow you to double click on a revision toolbar button and then apply that revision without it being detached every time. You can find it here: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/okular-devel/2011-January/008681.html

In the meantime the patch get revised to be sure there are no problems, you can download okular source code, download the patch from the link above, apply it and then compile okular.

Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2011-01-31 13:18:27 UTC

Thanks Raffa! Might I suggest using right-click instead of double click? Some users (like myself) cannot double-click. Other than that is seems great by the description, but I do not have a test environment to build Okular on. The wife inherited the laptop!

Comment 3 raffamaiden 2011-01-31 14:56:41 UTC

>
> --- Comment #2 from Dotan Cohen <kde-51 dotancohen com>  2011-01-31
> 13:18:27 ---
> Thanks Raffa!


You are welcome :)


> Might I suggest using right-click instead of double click? Some
> users (like myself) cannot double-click.


Well in the patch right clicking is currently reserved to detach the
annotation, a feature IMHO especially useful in "double click mode". Of
course, I do not know if the patch will be applied and what parts of it, so
I do not know if the right clicking thing goes in or not.
Why you cannot double click, if we can know? Maybe we can find a compromise
solution, like a keyboard shortcut for whom cannot double click, or a
checkbox in the menu.

Other than that is seems great by the
> description, but I do not have a test environment to build Okular on. The
> wife
> inherited the laptop!
>
>

Comment 4 Pino Toscano 2011-01-31 15:14:50 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161020 ***