[Problem] TechDraw has 2 annotation tools and both are not ideal

[PaddleStroke]

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Problem description

TechDraw annotation dialog UI is very strange. Why not simply using line breaks instead of this exotic + - buttons?

Besides why a dialog in the first place? The user should be able to start edition directly on the annotation.

Problem 2 : TechDraw has 2 annotation tools that seems overlapping. Forum discussion : https://forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?t=87441

Full version info

0.22

Subproject(s) affected?

Techdraw

Anything else?

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[WandererFan]

The 2 tools are essentially "quick, casual, plain text annotation" and "full featured formatted text annotation".

[WandererFan]

This commented code in QGIViewAnnotation should implement "edit directly on the annotation", but it is 8 years old, so no guarantees.

    m_textItem->setTextInteractionFlags(Qt::NoTextInteraction);
    //To allow on screen editing of text:
    //m_textItem->setTextInteractionFlags(Qt::TextEditorInteraction);   //this works
    //QObject::connect(QGraphicsTextItem::document(), SIGNAL(contentsChanged()), m_textItem, SLOT(updateText()));  //not tested