Bug 426274

Summary: Some pre-set colors are not useful for the highlighter annotation.
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Michael D <nortexoid>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: minor CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.11.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
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Description Michael D 2020-09-07 11:48:28 UTC
Most of the available annotation colors in the new annotation toolbar are too dark to be useful for the highlighter tool. I wonder if some of the dark colors (e.g. blue) could be replaced by lighter ones more appropriate for the highlighter. Another option--probably more ideal but harder to implement--would be to show different palettes for different tools.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-09-08 13:11:28 UTC
Yellow, Green, and Cyan seem fine to me with the typical black text. Orange and magenta are a bit borderline, while red and blue are indeed much too dark for this purpose, yeah.

Note that you can set a custom color if you'd like.
Comment 2 Michael D 2020-09-08 13:46:47 UTC
Yes, thanks, I did notice you can configure the color and opacity, but only after I filed this report!
Comment 3 Laura David Hurka 2020-09-08 15:35:11 UTC
> Yellow, Green, and Cyan seem fine
Don’t forget White ;)

I think we can at least replace Orange by something else, on my screen I can’t distinguish it from Red.

The typical text marker “neon” colors should be fine, right? Since this is just a list of suggestions, providing different palettes for different tools makes sense to me. If we can just swap two QMenus for this button, it should be easy to implement.