Bug 309901 - Cancel table selection when clicking outside the table
Summary: Cancel table selection when clicking outside the table
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.15.3
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
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Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2012-11-11 14:14 UTC by Kai Uwe Broulik
Modified: 2012-11-11 14:14 UTC (History)
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Description Kai Uwe Broulik 2012-11-11 14:14:08 UTC
Thanks for that awesome table selection, makes copying stuff out of PDF tables really really easy and straight forward, However:

Exiting the table selection mode is not really intuitive. The info bar gives a hint to press Escape but I think when you click outside the selected area, it should cancel the selection. Especially when you moved to another page you find yourself unable to select something as there is a selection somewhere else going on. Usually you can do a new selection when starting to drag outside the selected area. This does not work with the table selection tool.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use table selection tool (Ctrl+5)
2. Select something
3. Try to select something else or desperately to exit the selection mode ;)
Actual Results:  
You have to press Esc to leave the selection mode in order to start a new selection

Expected Results:  
The selection exits when you click outside the selection, or a new selection starts when starting to drag outside the selection.