Bug 414474 - Highlighter tool could highlight a word on double-click
Summary: Highlighter tool could highlight a word on double-click
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.7.3
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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: 419652 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2019-11-24 21:17 UTC by severin.kunz
Modified: 2023-09-25 00:25 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description severin.kunz 2019-11-24 21:17:28 UTC 
The Highlighter tool should highlight a word when double clicking
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-11-30 21:02:53 UTC 
Makes sense, this is the behavior for normal selection; it could do the same thing for highlighting.
Comment 2 Yuri Chornoivan 2020-04-05 04:50:46 UTC 
*** Bug 419652 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Thiago Sueto 2021-09-03 00:28:57 UTC 
This is also relevant for touchscreens.

The amount of precision required to highlight with the finger is way too high when the selection works by characters, it's very easy to accidentally highlight extra spaces, characters or even words. This in turn requires an undo action, which needs the user to either leave tablet mode to type or to add a new undo button in the toolbar.
Comment 4 kde.xg0ws 2022-04-17 08:46:51 UTC 
I also would  like to see this feature implemented.
Comment 5 alphanine 2023-08-23 20:32:49 UTC 
I was about to file a bug until I saw this one.
In addition to the lack of double-click to select in the Highlighter tool, even the Text Selection tool does not allow you to double-click-and drag to select multiple words a word at a time.