Re: [libreoffice-design] Extra-large 'slide design windows' in Impress - Possible Usability Issue

Hi Patrick,

thanks for you mail!

Am Sonntag, den 12.06.2011, 17:56 +0100 schrieb Patrick Scott:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a lot more experience with Powerpoint 2007 than I have with LO
> Impress. One of the habits I brought from Powerpoint was flicking through
> slides while in design mode by pressing the Up and Down arrow keys. I
> immediately noticed that this doesn't work in Impress because the arrow keys
> are used to scroll up and down in the slide design window. That led me to
> ask the question; why is there a huge amount scrollable white space
> surrounding the slide in the Impress slide design window? In Powerpoint the
> window is 'fitted' to the slide but in Impress there is roughly 800 pixels
> of empty padding to the left and right of the slide and there is about 300 -
> 400 pixels of empty padding above and below the slide. I was considering
> filing a bug for this because I think it would be helpful for Powerpoint
> converts to abolish this empty space and free the Up and Down arrow keys for
> cycling through the slides. However, I thought it might be better to ask the
> question here first since I don't know the functional reason why this space
> exists or whether it's necessary.
>
> Impress experts, what are your thoughts on this? Is this worthy of a bug
> report?

The behavior of both PowerPoint and Impress has its high- and lowlights
- personally I found the Impress behavior to not "mis-use" the vertical
scrollbar more logical. Hehe, and I just noticed a really weird issue:
try to zoom out (e.g. 20%), then up/down jumps between the slides.

However, we know that Impress behaves bad ... so the OpenOffice.org
Renaissance project (driven by Sun/Oracle) addressed those issues. I
thought these changes were already available within the recent
LibreOffice builds.

Here is the specification "Slide View, Preview and Sorter Rendering"
that talks about keyboard behavior in section 1.6:
http://specs.openoffice.org/renaissance/slide_view_sorter_and_preview.odt

It would be great if you could file an issue for that - both referring
to that specification and asking for a check whether these Renaissance
changes have been included (OOo CWS name "Renaissance1", OOo issue
107211).

I hope this helped - at least a bit...

Cheers,
Christoph


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