Hello, I tried the latest beta and I have to say I that although the program is eminently usable, the interface does require some polishing. All in all, this is good software, for which I am grateful (and rather impressed by its progress). The following suggestions should obviously not be construed as criticism.
1. The toolbars. I think they could use less space. First, they're too tall. I believe they should be made as short as the icons allow, like other Qt applications (this also includes the search bar). They're also too wide. The page field and the spaces in between could be made narrower, so that the information would flow naturally (there probably aren't any documents that need such wide fields anyway); also, replace „of” with „/” (it's the shorter and doesn't need translating, thus it's the same length in all languages). The page layout drop-down list could be successfully replaced with 2 buttons: one to switch between showing 1 or 2 pages on screen and another one to toggle continuous (column) mode. The same goes for rotation: one button to cycle between the 4 options would be enough. The scaling drop-down list should be replaced by 4 buttons: one each for fit page, fit width, zoom in and zoom out, complemented by a narrow text field which only displays and reads percentages (again, no translation needed, so the toolbar size will be wholly language-neutral). The extra space (making one toolbar out of these 3 should also save some) could be used for some new buttons, such as search, full screen, outline and thumbnails. The search toolbar could be improved by replacing the text buttons with graphic ones (besides reducing its height) and adding another icon on the left for closing it. 2. The menus. Nothing special here, except that the page layout, scaling and rotation options should go under their own submenus, to avoid making view too long. The page navigation entries would probably also make more sense under their own submenu in view, rather than under edit. Perhaps the context menu should have some of the functionality of the toolbars (page navigation, zoom, rotation etc.); likewise, a menu for the bookmarks (entries), and possibly some buttons too (now I'm beginning to see the reason for multiple toolbars) would be a nice complement. 3. The general feel. The red boxes around links look kind of ugly. Maybe they can only display when the pointer is hovering above them. There's also the issue of pages not being properly centred if their sizes are not all the same. One thing that really bothers me is that when activating fit page or fit width, the zoom level is set globally in order to fit the biggest page, so that if you have a document with various page widths you're stuck with a zoom level adequate only for the biggest one, even in non-continuous mode. This should at least be fixed for non-continuous, so the zoom level would be set according to the current page (or the largest of the 2 current pages). It wouldn't hurt to have some way of deciding which page is „current” and setting the zoom level accordingly for continuous mode too, although it might not be as easy. That was all I could think of. I also intend to contribute a Romanian translation after these issues have been discussed. Andi Șerbănescu -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~qpdfview Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~qpdfview More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
