At the moment, if I want to use my stylus as a pen, I must select the pen option every time I make a stroke. This is very frustrating, and could be solved if the annotation mode would stick until unselected. In addition, that is a much more intuitive behavior to me, at least for the highlighter and pens. I can see why it would be less intuitive for the sticky note.
Your use case is already covered by double clicking the tool to make it stick. This is currently described in Okular's help as follows: "With a single left mouse button click on an annotation tool button you can use a tool once. If you e.g. want to highlight all important parts of a text, activate that tool permanently by double clicking on the tool button. Press the Esc key or click the tool button again to leave the permanent mode." That said, I'm still not closing this bug as "WORKSFORME", because there may be some value in changing it by default to "sticky" in the name of usability: - Other "tools", e.g. "Browse" or "Selection" already work that way. - It very easy to deselect the tool again, while it is very hard to discover the double clicking feature. - More often than not, you actually want to use the tool more than once, e.g. when annotating a scientific paper. - Moving around via the scrollbars or the scroll wheel still works (or the annotation tool switching could be integrated with the toolbar tool switching; see also bug 341914) - Testing macOS Preview, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Foxit Reader, all three default to "sticky" too (except for the "note" tool). Adding Oliver to add his two cents, because I believe he's using this feature with a touchscreen and/or stylus, too.
*** Bug 358057 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Git commit 0b05d7ce990c1b5e17397f1515ba0364a773a43f by Nate Graham, on behalf of Simone Gaiarin. Committed on 04/06/2020 at 13:01. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Overhaul annotations UX Create a new new annotation toolbar to replace the current one as discussed in the task T8076. Fixes: Related: bug 374728, bug 352310, bug 330518, bug 341914, bug 157289, bug 358057, bug 412767, bug 413595, bug 420462 FIXED-IN: 1.11.0 Test Plan Before testing this revision Delete or Temporary move aside the following files: ~/.config/okularpartrc ~/.config/okularrc ~/.local/share/kxmlgui5/okular/part.rc ~/.local/share/kxmlgui5/okular/shell.rc Nomenclature Actions in the main toolbar: Quick annotations Actions in the annotation toolbar: Annotation actions Highlighter, Underline, Squiggle, Strike out, Typewriter, Inline note, Popup note, Freehand line, Arrow, Straight line, Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Stamp Annotation config actions Line width, Color, Inner color, Opacity, Font, Annotation settings Other actions Add to Quick Annotations, Pin Autotests First run: annotation toolbar is not visible Selecting Tools > Annotations shows the annotation toolbar (below the main toolbar by default) Select an annotation > toolbar is shown Select a quick annotation > toolbar is shown Hide action (red cross) on the toolbar hides the toolbar Keys 1-9,0 select the (builtin) Annotation actions (one case tested) Keys Alt+1-9,0 select the quick annotation actions (one case tested) No annotation action selected: Quick Annotations is enabled, Add to quick annotations is disabled, Annotation config actions are disabled, Pin is enabled The current document is an image: Highlighter, Underline, Squiggle, Strike out are disabled (also in Quick annotations) The current document is protected: All actions are disabled Select annotation: the Annotation config actions are enabled and their values set to the ones for the current annotation (taken from okularpartrc) Click an annotation action when none selected: browse mode is selected Click the currently selected annotation action: the action is unchecked and the tool disabled (back to browse mode) Click ESC: the currently selected annotation action is unchecked If Pin unchecked the selected annotation is unchecked after it has be used once and we are back to Browse mode The annotation systems works when multiple Okular tabs are open (the selected annotation is per-tab) Manual tests (TODO) Check that kconf_update updates the key AnnotationTools to QuickAnnotationTools in ~/.config/okularpartrc Color icon is a format-text-color (if inline note or typewriter) or format-stroke-color for all other annotations All actions have tooltips (some change based on the fact that the icon is enabled or not) If a custom Line Width or Opacity is set through the Annotation Settings dialog, its value appears as a new checked action in the Line width or Opacity menu If a custom stamp is selected through the Annotation Settings dialog, its name or filename (without path) appears as a new checked action in the Stamp menu In Configure Okular > Annotations it is only possible to configure the quick annotations. Modifying them here updates the Quick annotations list after clicking Apply The current document is an image: Highlighter, Underline, Squiggle, Strike out are disabled in Quick annotations The state of Pin action is remembered across Okular launches Selecting a quick action selects the corresponding action and loads its config values (color, line width, ...) Setting the color and fill color works for all annotations (to be tested carefully, can be problematic for typewriter and inline note given the different internal mechanism to store the color in the settings) Test stamp annotation (handled differently from the rest of the annotations) Merge Request: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/merge_requests/105 M +2 -1 CMakeLists.txt M +7 -0 autotests/CMakeLists.txt A +373 -0 autotests/annotationtoolbartest.cpp [License: GPL (v2+)] A +- -- autotests/data/protected.pdf M +9 -16 autotests/parttest.cpp M +3 -3 conf/dlgannotations.cpp M +1 -1 conf/dlgannotationsbase.ui M +7 -2 conf/editannottooldialog.cpp M +5 -1 conf/editannottooldialog.h M +41 -0 conf/okular.kcfg M +5 -0 okular.upd M +3 -1 part.cpp M +26 -1 part.rc M +3 -3 shell/shell.cpp M +1 -0 shell/shell.h A +837 -0 ui/annotationactionhandler.cpp [License: GPL (v2+)] A +51 -0 ui/annotationactionhandler.h [License: GPL (v2+)] M +45 -22 ui/annotationwidgets.cpp M +6 -0 ui/annotationwidgets.h M +1 -0 ui/data/CMakeLists.txt M +104 -55 ui/data/tools.xml A +33 -0 ui/data/toolsQuick.xml M +28 -126 ui/pageview.cpp M +3 -2 ui/pageview.h M +314 -157 ui/pageviewannotator.cpp M +62 -26 ui/pageviewannotator.h M +2 -533 ui/pageviewutils.cpp M +0 -95 ui/pageviewutils.h M +2 -2 ui/side_reviews.cpp https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/commit/0b05d7ce990c1b5e17397f1515ba0364a773a43f