Enhancements for search
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qpdfview |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Adam Reichold | ||
0.2.x |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Adam Reichold |
Bug Description
Although none of the following are actual bugs, I think they are critical features for a useful find feature. (If you don't have patience to read everything, I'm just advising that qpdfview try to mimic the behavior of the Firefox find toolbar)
Ctrl-F displays the find toolbar and gives it focus, which is expected behavior. However, unlike most other programs I have used, pressing Escape while the find toolbar has focus does nothing. Often that will close the find toolbar, which to me would be the expected behavior. Meanwhile, if Ctrl-F is pressed while the find toolbar is open, it could just refocus and select the content.
An additional niggle is the highlight color, which, being a light grey, is very hard to pick out from a white background. Of course, any color choice would be wrong on some combination of background and text colors. Perhaps there is some way to grab the background and text colors and generate a sensible highlight color choice, but that's getting ahead of myself.
Other features worth adding would be find previous, match case, highlight all, ect. For long PDFs, a powerful search feature seems pretty important.
p.s. I'm really amazed at how quickly this program is improving. Thank you!
Changed in qpdfview: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
assignee: | nobody → Adam Reichold (adamreichold) |
summary: |
- Enhancement for Find + Enhancement for search |
summary: |
- Enhancement for search + Enhancements for search |
I agree with your recommendations. After releasing version 0.2 and creating a mailing list today, I will hopefully implement these changes for the next minor release. Do you think blue will is a sensible highlight colour until we implement a smarter heuristic?