Re: fdo #36946 -- categories for slide transitions in impress -- where to implement categorisation

Hi Andrzej,

thanks a lot for looking into this!

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 15:51 +0200, Andrzej J. R. Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently working on adding categories to the transitions viewable 
> in the Impress GUI (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36946).
>
> I'm not sure how best to assign categories to the transitions. The list 
> of transitions is in xml/transitions.xml, which is loaded by 
> source/core/TransitionPreset.cxx. Initially I used the transition-type 
> (mnTransition) as the category, which does work, but results in too many 
> categories, many of which should be joined into one. Therefore I'd like 
> to create new UI categories, but don't know where I should do this.

Yup, having fewer categories makes sense. Powerpoint 2010 has only 3
categories too.

> I could assign the categories directly in the transitions.xml file 
> (which would require some changes to the code importing this file, 
> including changes in xmloff), or I could write a new method in the 
> TransitionPreset class that contains a list of which transition types 
> map to which UI categories (much simpler to write, but less elegant in 
> the case that someone adds more transitions to the file).
>
> Which of these options should I choose, or is there a better way that I 
> could do this?

I would prefer adding the information into transitions.xml. Otherwise it
would be less clear when adding new transitions.

Cheers
Radek