avoid automatically switching to ReadingOrder editing

For some reason, whenever I finish some action in SEGMENTS → Regions on a region imported from PAGE-XML – for example change the class – the UI will immediately switch over to SEGMENTS → Reading Order afterwards.

This is annoying and elusive: I would understand it if the region did not have a position in ReadingOrder yet (as do newly created regions) in order to “fill the hole right away”, but to summon this view when there is actually nothing to do feels strange.

Is there anything I can do for mitigation? Can ReadingOrder editing be disabled complete (maybe in larex.config)?

[maxnth]

Added in branch fix/readingOrderDisplay.

The reading order and the “reading order menu” will now only be displayed on actions which alter the existing reading order (as in removes element from an existing reading order).

A switch was added to Advanced Settings in the sidebar to completely suppress the forced display of the reading order (menu), even when actions alter the reading order.

Will be added to master in the next minor release (probably 0.3.2) in the near future.

[maxnth]

Opening the reading order collapsible when changing to another region type (except ImageRegion, which would change the RO by being removed from it) does indeed seem not that useful.

Can ReadingOrder editing be disabled complete

Sadly not at the moment, but maybe it would make sense to add it in to the settings in the UI and make it saveable (related to #182).