Done and Delete buttons for Read Aloud annotations

edited 4 days ago
I can click on the UI to make an annotation when it is reading aloud in Zotero.
So I would like to be able to complete or delete the annotation from the mouse also (Done and Delete).
I find it strange that I need to read the tutorial for keyboard shortcuts and reach the keyboard to validate the annotation I have made from the mouse.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited 4 days ago
    Well, you don't need to read the tutorial — the annotation has already been created when the popup appears, and the popup goes away by itself in a few seconds. Done via the keyboard is just a way to dismiss it more quickly. We'll make clicking outside of the popup do the same thing. (That was actually the intended behavior, but it's not working due to a bug.)

    You can delete the annotation with the mouse via the context menu from the page or the sidebar.
  • Thanks for the explanation.
    As long as the popup is opened, I can do all the editing operations listed below from the mouse, except Done and Delete:
    https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u265723/y71w67szectvjpve3exz.png

    Making the popup disappear more quickly with the mouse is indeed part of the problem (Done). But that still leaves cancelling the annotation from the mouse more complicated at the moment, because I still need to select it before deleting it from the context menu.

    The sidebar does not move to the newly created annotation, so with many annotations in the file, this is probably difficult to find it there.
    As long as the popup is displayed, the newly created annotation is just behind the popup, so still difficult to reach in the page.
    If the popup can be dismissed by a click outside, that would improve a bit the Delete process, but still quite more complicated than a red cross in the popup to delete it.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    But that still leaves cancelling the annotation from the mouse more complicated at the moment, because I still need to select it before deleting it from the context menu.
    You don't. It's just two clicks: right-click on the annotation and Delete. You can do that with the popup open, and if it's blocked by the popup, you'll be able to click anywhere outside and then right-click → Delete.

    We can consider a delete button, but Delete just isn't particularly important here. If you clicked the button, you presumably meant to annotate something, and if the selection is wrong, you can use the arrow buttons to move it. And there's obviously nothing stopping you from pressing Delete on the keyboard for the rare case where you really don't want that annotation.
  • Ok, thank you.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    In the latest beta, clicking outside the panel will dismiss it.
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