https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268575
--- Comment #17 from Todd <toddrme2178 gmail com> 2011-03-23 00:58:10 --- "and the documentation clearly states the behaviour." The problem is that people are unlikely to read the documentation for what seems to be totally standard PDF behavior. Do you expect people to read the documentation before using a tab bar on a web browser? Before trying to print something from a word processor? These are standard behaviors, and users would expect them to behave in a standard manner. Annotations are a standard part of pdfs. Users see the word "annotations" and they assume that these are the standard annotations used by many other pdf programs. Users simply aren't going to read the documentation before using what seems to be a standard behavior. And in this case they will likely waste hours of their time because of it. And it is not just that they are different, they serve radically different fundamental purposes. Annotations in other pdf programs are commonly used for transferring notes on the document from one person to another in a consistent and platform-independent manner. That is not possible with your version of annotations, which apparently are intended for making personal notes not intended to be shared with anyone else. The principle of least surprise comes into play here. What would be more surprising for a user: that their pdf program behaves in a manner similar to many other pdf programs, or that it randomly uses the exact same name for something not only totally different, but something that serves an entirely different and totally incompatible purpose? I think that if a program is going to radically violate user expectations, potentially losing them hours or even days of work in the process, it is not unreasonable to warn them beforehand in a visible manner. The documentation is simply not visible in this scenario, because as I mentioned users don't normally read the documentation for what they think is a standard behavior. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.kde.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Okular-devel mailing list Okular-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel
