This is more a feature request than a bug report, however I would consider this awkward behavior to be a bug. :-) First, congratulations, Okular is a nice app! At the moment, I primarily use Okular to highlight sections in PDF files. However, every so often I see an interesting hyperlink to additional information on the Internet, which I tend to visit, but this requires switching from Browse mode to text selection mode. This is unfortunate, because then the Review bar disappears and I have to press F6 again to restore it, which triggers the text selection mode to switch back to Browse mode. This is very awkward behavior. Another missing feature in Okular is that you cannot bold face or italicize a text selection. Very unfortunate!
why do you need to switch from browse mode to text mode to click a link?
The core of this bug report is that opening the annotation toolbar implies Browse Mode, correct? Confirmed with Okular 1.7.2...
(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #1) > why do you need to switch from browse mode to text mode to click a link? I work with research papers a lot. They contain tons of references to other research papers. So if you read an important paragraph in the paper that refers than to another important paper in the references section you would like to immediately check which paper is referred to
(In reply to David Hurka from comment #2) > The core of this bug report is that opening the annotation toolbar implies > Browse Mode, correct? > > Confirmed with Okular 1.7.2... Not sure what you mean by "confirmed". Anyway, as I originally said this is more a feature request than a bug report. To emphasize, as a heavy user of Okular it is very cumbersome that the use of the annotation bar forces you to change the mode back and forth from annotating back to reading ...
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/merge_requests/439
Git commit 230a68d537a2f958f72dce162221555ef285896f by Albert Astals Cid, on behalf of Simone Gaiarin. Committed on 19/06/2021 at 14:12. Pushed by aacid into branch 'master'. Uncheck mouse mode action when annotation tool selected When the annotation is unchecked the previous mouse mode is restored. The slot slotMouseNormalToggled is changed back to its original version of slotSetMouseNormal given that we needed to pass the checked state only to detach the annotations, and we do it in the lambda now. Related: bug 437377 FIXED-IN: 21.08 M +11 -5 autotests/annotationtoolbartest.cpp M +45 -15 part/pageview.cpp M +1 -1 part/pageview.h M +2 -2 part/pageviewannotator.cpp M +4 -1 part/pageviewannotator.h https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/commit/230a68d537a2f958f72dce162221555ef285896f