I'm gonna follow your advice and ask this on the forum. It's important to have a feedback from the users.
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 20:13, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > El Dilluns, 12 de març de 2012, a les 09:52:45, Mailson Lira va escriure: > > Hi everyone, > > Hi > > > Currently I'm working on this new > > feature[1<https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157198>] > > which is make bookmark remember where in the page it was saved. The > > solution is to make the bookmark save the center of the viewport, not > only > > the page number. With that in mind, the user now can have as many > bookmarks > > as he wants on a given page. > > True, i had not though about when i told you to implement it, good catch > :-) > > > This will change the behavior of the program, so I need to ask a few > > questions on how this should work. > > > > == Case 1 - "Remove bookmark" menu action == > > > > If you right click on a *bookmarked* page (or click on Bookmark in > > menubar), you'll see an option to remove the current bookmark instead of > > adding a new one. > > > > Since the user can add another bookmark on another position we can't > simply > > show the "Remove bookmark" option on a bookmarked page anymore. > > > > So what should we do with the "Remove bookmark" option? > > - Check if the use is at the exact position of the bookmark and then show > > the option to remove it? That may not be a good idea since if the user > > moves 1px to the left, he's not on that bookmark position anymore. > > Nope, too dificut. > > > - Show an extra option to remove all bookmarks on the page or the last > > bookmark added? With that the "Remove bookmark" will not replace the "Add > > bookmark" option. > > "Remove Last added" is not a gread idea, i won't remember which is the last > one i added tomorrow. > > > > > - Make the "Remove bookmark" option available when the viewport very > close > > to the bookmark position, so it doesn't need to be at the exact position. > > That's tricky. > > Yeah, too fuzzy. > > > > > Any suggestions? > > Not sure. Problem is I'm not a heaviy user of Okular myself so I am not > sure > what is the best solution. One solution i can see working would be keeping > the > Add/Remove Bookmark Page feature, and then adding a new item menu that is > "Bookmark this position" (in oposion to 'this page'). For these "position" > based bookmarks you would only be able to remove them from the bookmark > manager in the sidebar (and we'd probably need some kind of icon > identifying > them as special bookmarks). > > This might be some extra over-engineering though, you might want to hang in > the #kde or #kde-cafe channels in irc.freenode.net and ask for opinions > there > or post in the kde forums to get some more okular users input as to how > this > would work. Asking the person that initially requested the feature might > also > work (even maybe he won't answer as the feature was requested years ago). > > Of course I'm not saying you have to implement what users say but they > might > have a good idea ;-) > > > > > == Case 2 - Ctrl+B shortcut == > > > > The Ctrl+B shortcut add or remove the page to bookmark. That may not work > > well if we have many bookmarks in the page. > > Should we detect if the current viewport is saved to bookmarks and then > > Ctrl+B will remove them? Or that shortcut will just add bookmark and the > > user needs to go to the list of saved bookmarks on the left side and > remove > > it manually? > > > > The first can lead to undesirable results such as the user adding various > > bookmarks on very close (but different) positions when what he really > > wanted was to remove a bookmark. > > That's basically the same problem as Case 1 but using the shortcut instead > of > the menu, we shoud solve Case 1 first and then apply the same rationale > here. > > > > > == Case 3 - Save only one bookmark per page == > > > > The bookmark will remember the position on the page but will still allow > > only one bookmark per page. That will not change the behavior of okular > but > > IMHO doesn't make much sense. > > Why you say this? Isn't your whole email based in the assumtption that > there > will be more than one bookmark per page? > > Albert > > > > > == == > > > > Sorry for the long message but I had to ask those questions. > > > > [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157198 > > > > -- > > Mailson Lira > _______________________________________________ > Okular-devel mailing list > Okular-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel >
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