Bug 506682 - Feature request: Select Highlight + action (delete,copy)
Summary: Feature request: Select Highlight + action (delete,copy)
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 25.04.2
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
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Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2025-07-06 16:45 UTC by Thomas Bernat
Modified: 2025-07-06 18:23 UTC (History)
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Description Thomas Bernat 2025-07-06 16:45:11 UTC 
Feature request:
When creating most annotations (inline text, popup note), it is possible to select them and delete them by pressing the delete key. It would be nice to have the same possibility for the highlighted text. Currently, one has to right-click on the highlighted text to open the contextual menu, and then click on Delete.

The current behavior is that nothing happens when a highlighted text is left-clicked on once. The expected behavior would be:
- A single left-click selects the highlights. This could be shown by a visual change, for example by displaying a darker contour of the highlight.
- Pressing the "delete" key deletes the highlight.
or (bonus)
- If text is associated with the highlight via a popup note, pressing "Crtl+C" copies the text.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Ubuntu 24.04 1 LTS