Bug 430540

Summary:	Save annotation color
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Iyán M. V. <me>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, simgunz
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	20.12.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Iyán M. V. 2020-12-18 13:03:09 UTC

The annotation toolbox has improved a lot in the last versions of Okular. I found specially useful the option to change the color of the highlighter, for example.

One thing that would be nice to change is that whenever the color is changed from the default yellow one, it remains like that until it is changed again. Right now if, for example, I highlight a text in red, and then go back to the browse mode (to click on a link, for example), when I go back to the highlighter the color is changed back to yellow. This is quite annoying because it forces the user to select the color every single time. Also, since there is no option to create a shortcut for a specific color (only to rotate between them) there is no "keyboard workaround" to this issue.

Comment 1 Iyán M. V. 2020-12-18 13:17:31 UTC

Okay, I just realized that actually the problem is when I use the keyboard shortcut. If I click on the highlighter, the color is not modified. If I press 1, then the color changes to yellow. Somehow the shortcut is mapped to a specific color.

Comment 2 Laura David Hurka 2020-12-19 12:15:35 UTC

“1” is the shortcut for the “Yellow Highlighter”, which is a so called “Quick Annotation”. The quick annotations are available in the “Quick Annotations” button, which should be in the main toolbar by default. This button also provides the option to “Configure Annotations”, which opens the configuration dialog. 

The “Highlighter” tool in the annotation toolbar has Alt+1 as default shortcut.

Thanks for telling us about your confusion, this information could be interesting for ongoing work to improveme the new annotation UI. :)

Comment 3 Iyán M. V. 2020-12-19 16:30:29 UTC

On Saturday, 19 December 2020 13:15:35 CET you wrote:
> “1” is the shortcut for the “Yellow Highlighter”, which is a so called
> “Quick Annotation”. The quick annotations are available in the “Quick
> Annotations” button, which should be in the main toolbar by default. This
> button also provides the option to “Configure Annotations”, which opens the
> configuration dialog.

Oh, I see! No, actually I didn't have the quick annotations button in my 
toolbar, but I just added it. Maybe it's because I didn't do a fresh 
installation of Plasma 5.20, and old config files prevent that from happning. No 
clue here.

> The “Highlighter” tool in the annotation toolbar has Alt+1 as default
> shortcut.

Okay, thanks for the clarification. I will have a look more carefully at all 
the options and shortcuts.

Comment 4 Simone Gaiarin 2021-04-25 11:27:48 UTC

This seems not a bug. If usability is an issue, please open another dedicate bug report.