Bug 398606

Summary:	Okular 'Help > What's this' doesn't work on toolbar items
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Kishore Gopalakrishnan <kishore96>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid, boaz.dodin, bugseforuns
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.5.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Kishore Gopalakrishnan 2018-09-14 05:41:46 UTC

If go to 'help > What's this', and try to use it on any of the toolbar buttons, we simply get a red crossed circle on the cursor, indicating that the item is not clickable. I couldn't find any item that was clickable (I tried the sidebar and the page bar as well).

In Kate, for example, the analogous help item works on toolbar buttons etc., so this seems to be some issue with Okular.

Comment 1 boaz.dodin 2018-09-14 11:25:32 UTC

On Okular 1.3.3 it works only for Previous and Next buttons.

Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2018-10-08 22:20:11 UTC

Not really a bug, just that we didn't feel any of those buttons really needed extra explanation.

Which of the buttons you feel that would benefit from a what's this text?

Comment 3 Kishore Gopalakrishnan 2018-10-09 03:35:58 UTC

Oh. I didn't realise it was intentional. Perhaps the 'what's this' menu item should be removed, then, if the application has no help text for any of the buttons?

Comment 4 Laura David Hurka 2018-10-09 16:48:58 UTC

I think, powerful tools which are not well known from other PDF readers would benefit.

For example: Trim to selection