Bug 233182 - Restore "construct again the same annotation" behaviour.
Summary: Restore "construct again the same annotation" behaviour.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 161020
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.10.2
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2010-04-03 18:56 UTC by Ismael Barros
Modified: 2010-04-07 22:06 UTC (History)
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Description Ismael Barros 2010-04-03 18:56:13 UTC
Version:           0.10.2 (using 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2), Chakra)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.32-ARCH

Lately I've been stying a lot of large PDF documents, and I found the current workflow that the annotator imposes very awkward:
  1.- Select highlight tool
  2.- Highlight text
  3.- Select highlight tool
  4.- Highlight text
  5.- Select highlight tool
  6.- Highlight text
      ...
  N.- Moonwalk away

A more proper workflow would be:
  1.- Select highlight tool
  2.- Highlight text
  3.- Highlight text
  4.- Highlight text
      ...
  N.- Unselect highlight tool


I'm aware this was the old beaviour and people complained because they needed to unselect the tool to edit an annotation (#155668). I think there are ways to solve both these problems.

For example, I see no reason why we shouldn't allow the regular right-click context menu on annotation mode. AFAIK, the only place where right-click is used while on annotation mode is with the "blue polygon" tool, to close the shape, but I think it would be maybe more intuitive to close it with a double click (tools like inkscape support both right and double click to close the shape). Anyway, it would be okay to hijack the regular right-click operation *while* drawing the shape, but keep it *before* starting to draw it. For the rest of the annotation tools, maintaining the right-click context menu while not drawing would be OK IMHO.

BTW, while we have selected an annotation tool, shouldn't we deselect the
"browse tool" button? Mouse doesn't behave like on browse mode, so the button shouldn't be selected. I also would be awesome to change the cursor's shape depending on the annotation tool.
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2010-04-03 19:07:10 UTC
Unless you want to work on a patch to fix this issue it's probably going to be not worked on since we are pretty short on workforce. If you want to help please join okular-devel mailing list.
Comment 2 Ismael Barros 2010-04-03 19:49:24 UTC
Sounds about right, I'll take a look if I find some time :)
Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2010-04-04 21:06:23 UTC
Good, before starting please drop by the irc channel or mail the mailing list so we can agree on what you implement, we don't want you to work on something we then do not want to use.
Comment 4 Pino Toscano 2010-04-07 22:06:36 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161020 ***