add buttons for annotation/text selection actions
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qpdfview |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Adam Reichold |
Bug Description
This is more of a feature request:
Currently, as far as I can see, the only way to select text for copying and to add annotations is through the combination of keyboard key + dragging the cursor over an area.
I think it would be very handy to have buttons, one for annotations and one for text selection, that trigger the exact same action as the keyboard keys: Once a button is pressed, the programs "waits" for a rectangle to be drawn and executes the corresponding action on that rectangle, whether it be annotation of copying to clipboard.
I imagine the buttons behaving much like the "Format brush" from MS's Word: it triggers a "one-time" action waiting to happen at the next mouse-drag, and then they go on standby again.
This is for people (like me...) that don't use these features often, and then it takes them quite some time to go through Help contents and realize how to do it through keyboard shortcuts... a button would be very useful in this case.
Changed in qpdfview: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Adam Reichold (adamreichold) |
milestone: | none → 0.3.3 |
Changed in qpdfview: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Hi Amit, I agree that the current state is less than optimal. I am rather undecided whether one-time buttons or (a) switch button(s) would be the better alternative but I would certainly not disregard accessibility of these features through the toolbar. However, it may be reasonable to not activate this/these button(s) by default but supply them as optional item(s) to the toolbar.