Bug 433963

Summary: Feature request: preview internal link in pop-up
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Tobias Bora <tobias.bora>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: aacid
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: Screenshot of Evince

Description Tobias Bora 2021-03-04 18:05:59 UTC
Created attachment 136376 [details]
Screenshot of Evince

I recently saw that evince added a feature to display the internal links in a pop-up like display (see attachement). It is just super useful, especially when reading science papers: that way, you can view, without moving to the actual part in the PDF:
- the definitions introduced before by just moving your mouse on "See Def. 2",
- the equation by just moving your mouse on "Eq. 5",
- the precise references to other papers by moving your mouse on "[1]",
- the footnote by moving your mouse on "myfootnote²",
- ...

Of course, you can always click, but then it's harder and longer to move back to the position you were before in your file.

Thanks a lot for considering this feature request!
Comment 1 Laura David Hurka 2021-03-05 14:33:24 UTC
You can click on it and then use the “Back” button to go to the previous position. Unfortunately, “Back” is currently broken, at least when smooth scrolling is enabled. (Configure Okular... -> General -> Use smooth scrolling.) (Use Configure Toolbars... to get “Back” as toolbar button.)

> science papers:
This is important. Non-sience papers / papers made by xy-Word make “See Def. 2” actually point to Def 4. ;)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 128434 ***
Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2021-03-05 16:07:44 UTC
David, is Back broken for you? It seems to work here.
Comment 3 Laura David Hurka 2021-03-05 16:46:43 UTC
Apparently it works. My last memory was that it goes literally one page back, because viewports are communicated too often with smooth scrolling.

It is still broken when scrolling the usual way, but for clicking a link it works fine. :)
Comment 4 Tobias Bora 2021-03-05 18:00:56 UTC
Yeah, I'm aware of "back", but it's broken for me. I saw that Okular 20.XX is supposed to have a fix, but I still have an older version (not yet packaged in my distribution, even in the unstable branch). And back is not even perfect, you are always disturbed when you move in your document.

>> science papers:
>This is important. Non-sience papers / papers made by xy-Word make “See Def. 2” actually point to Def 4. ;)

Ahah, I'm talking about what I know, that's all ^^ But do non scientific (where science is taken in a wide sense) papers even have definitions ? :-P