Dear Developers, reading a paper in Okular I often click on links to figures, references, etc.. Currently, I have to remember the page I was on and move back manually as the 'Previous' button always moves to the `physically' previous page and not the previously read page. I think it would be great if pressing the 'Previous' button moves the reader back to the page read before, as I think this functionality is currently missing and it is what is expect, at least compared with web-browsers. Cheers, Tobi
It's not missing. Go -> Back/Forward You did not even look at the menus before filing the bug? Or they are hard to understand?
While the reporter did not know that the functionality existed, I don't think it is fair to be so harsh. Plus I think there might be a valid point in what he says: namely it would make sense to make the <-/-> buttons tied to the "Back/Forward" actions rather than the "Previous page/Next page" actions. I for one don't remember ever using the Previous page/Next page action: usually, when I am reading a document, the whole page is not visible and then it just doesn't make sense to move to the next page. Should I file a new wish for this change?
The reporter did not know the functionality existed. But in my opinion it is far "harder" to report a bug that to open the menus and look through them, so I am interested if he did look through them or not. If not why. And if he did why he did not understood Go->Back/Forward do what he wanted. You can open any wish for the changes you want. But toolbars are configurable for a reason, if you don't like the default, you can change them, without a deep study i don't see the need to change the defaults.
Thanks for clarifying. Online discussion has the drawback that one can't see non-verbal hints and without them, as I said, your second sentence sounded a bit harsh to me :-) As for the feature, I won't pollute the bugzilla with a new wish as I don't use the toolbars anyway (yes, I know the buttons are configurable, I chose to hide the toolbars so that I have more space for the content). And I agree that it would need a deeper study to change defaults. However, in this case I think time is better spent otherwise... Btw, thanks for your work on okular. Its one of the programs that I use all the time but don't even notice them since they "just work".
On Thursday 07 August 2014 09:11:10 you wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338088 > > --- Comment #3 from Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org> --- > The reporter did not know the functionality existed. But in my opinion it is > far "harder" to report a bug that to open the menus and look through them, > so I am interested if he did look through them or not. If not why. Thank you for your quick reply - I didn't look into the menu. My intuition was always that the `previous - next' buttons should behave as the `back - forward' buttons do and it didn't occur to me that the function might exist hidden in the `go' menu.