Bug 333982

Summary: navigation panel wastes space
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Barade <barade.barade>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: aacid, alanbortu, cfeck
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.17.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Icons not on the side

Description Barade 2014-04-27 23:14:10 UTC 
The navigation panel wastes much space by putting icons for "contents", "thumbnails" etc. in vertical order. Whenever the user wants to use those categories for example to see thumbnails which could be quite useful a lot of space is wasted for those categories. They could be put above a vertical bar with thumbnails/bookmarks etc and be resized smaller or at least the bar should be resizeable (use QSplitter).

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2014-04-27 23:29:34 UTC 
Not going to change
Comment 2 Barade 2014-04-28 09:21:41 UTC 
Could you please explain why not? In terms of usability it doesn't make sense to waste space in a GUI layout.
Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2014-04-28 19:38:16 UTC 
Because we've been developing Okular for more than 10 years and noone came up with a better solution. And I don't see you suggesting a better one, i wasn't even able to understand what you meant.
Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2014-04-29 23:33:08 UTC 
You can right-click the navigation panel, and change icon size and/or remove text labels. This way, you can save some space, which I guess is what you were trying to do with the proposed splitter.
Comment 5 Uzair Shamim 2014-05-18 16:12:01 UTC 
Created attachment 86691 [details]
Icons not on the side
Comment 6 Uzair Shamim 2014-05-18 16:15:47 UTC 
I uploaded a screenshot of what could be done to "save space". I personally prefer to not have the icons on the side, since most of the time, pdfs are read left->right and right -> left, wasting the little bit of space means that the pdf might not fit at an ideal zoom level.
Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2014-06-02 20:44:47 UTC 
Regarding comment #5: If I had to save space here, I would click on that icon again to hide the page navigator.

That's also the reason, why the icons are not displayed above or below the navigator; they would either need to jump around when hiding the navigator, or the wasted space would even be bigger.