Bug 443446

Summary:	Add "previous view" and "next view" buttons
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	van.snyder <van.snyder>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid, oliver.sander
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	20.12.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description van.snyder@sbcglobal.net 2021-10-07 18:54:09 UTC

SUMMARY

Navigation in the Adobe acrobat reader is eased by having "next view" and "previous view" (not "next page" and "previous page") buttons. These are like "undo" and "redo" in an editor, not "page up" and "page down" keys on the keyboard. In Aaroread, these are not normally configured, but one can add them to the toolbar. Try it out and you'll agree it's easier than keeping a pencil and paper handy (or an editor page open) to write down page numbers.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Read some page of a document
2. Read something on a distant page of a document
3. Wish to get back to step 1.

OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT


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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Oliver Sander 2021-10-07 18:59:34 UTC

Have you tried shift+alt+left?

Comment 2 van.snyder@sbcglobal.net 2021-10-07 19:13:52 UTC

shift+alt+left and shift+alt+right indeed do what I want.

I would not have guessed these, and I would never have found them without Oliver's comment.

Can there be an optional tool button so that others do not also need Oliver's advice?

Comment 3 Oliver Sander 2021-10-07 19:21:58 UTC

I think you can already have such a button.  Go to preference -> toolbar settings -> anotation toolbar, and there should be 'forward' and 'backward' actions.

[The menu names may be slightly different, I translated them from my German UI.]

Comment 4 van.snyder@sbcglobal.net 2021-10-07 19:56:20 UTC

Maybe my version (20.12.3) is too old -- there is no "preferences" menu item, nor a "preferences" item on any menu. I tried Settings -> Configure Toolbars and Settings -> Configure Okular and Settings -> Configure Okular -> Configure Annotations, and found nothing about "forward" and "backward" actions. Maybe I'm still looking in the wrong place.

Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2021-10-07 21:17:03 UTC

Settings -> Configure toolbars is what you want, it's on the okular_part toolbar.

Comment 6 van.snyder@sbcglobal.net 2021-10-07 21:33:50 UTC

Settings -> Configure toolbars adds a "configure toolbars" icon to the tool bar. Once it's there, it offers to configure the toolbar (exactly like Settings -> Configure toolbar). The dialogue offered by Configure Toolbars offers nothing to add "forward" and "backward" actions.

Comment 7 Albert Astals Cid 2021-10-07 21:43:22 UTC

Clearly you don't understand how to use the configure toolbars dialog, this is out of scope here.

I'd suggest you ask in the forums or chat https://kde.org/support/