Bug 496071

Summary:	Six Suggestions For Okular
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	lybkexskmguugovejv
Component:	New backend wishes	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED
Severity:	normal	CC:	oliver.sander
Priority:	NOR
Version:	24.08.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description lybkexskmguugovejv 2024-11-11 02:16:08 UTC

SUMMARY
Six suggestions for Okular:

1. Highlighted text shown in sidebar with initial words of given text. Just "highlight" for each entry makes each page highlights very confusing to manage.
2. Advanced search - which shows initial words surrounding the searched word/words and Regex. Also approximate search between words.
3. Deletable hightlight using the highlight-tool instead of having to select the hand-tool. This is a very annoying lack of feature.
4. Highlight shortcut in toolbar which makes makes color change more practical. Perhaps better links for the change in colors (it needs several clicks to go and come back between colors shifts)
5. Okular settings takes like 5 seconds to load even if it just closed. This has been like this for years.
6. RESTORE SESSION. This also has been something asked for years.

Comment 1 Oliver Sander 2024-11-11 06:32:55 UTC

Please file individual issues for each of your suggestions. Please check beforehand whether other people have filed the same issue, to avoid duplicates.

This is not to say that your suggestions are bad, but combining several issues in  one bugtracker thread makes it very difficult to keep track of what has been done and what not.

Comment 2 lybkexskmguugovejv 2024-11-12 00:38:00 UTC

7. Saving a large epub requires it to reload, to avoid this I simply don't save often, which causes me to lose data in highlights, or lose 30 seconds waiting for the process to finish.

Also, it took time for me to elaborate these seven points. To disqualify it simply as this, wasted my free time trying to improve this software as much as those working on the code as well do for free.
It's a truly unfair label to status as resolved so the maintainers never be able to see PRACTICAL IMPROVEMENTS suggestions that has been for years.

There's not a more disrespectful way to imply a request website signup was this useless thanks to a bureaucratic template.
It's posted. I tried helping. If it doesn't please someone reading like this you can bury again.

Comment 3 Oliver Sander 2024-11-12 08:06:14 UTC

Please read my message again.  Setting the status to RESOLVED MOVED does not mean that we don't care.  It is simply that we cannot work with bugtracker entries that combine several unrelated issues.  Therefore I was asking you to open separate entries for each of your suggestions.