Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress query

On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 17:39 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
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> Now that the question has been asked i find it unbelievable that no-one has thought
> of it before!  It might even have kept me awake during some presentations or made
> me aware that i didn't have time to write it all down (which i only tend to do 
> to try to keep awake).  If there could be different options such as a progress-bar
> (like when loading heavy web-pages or installing programs) or a "launch count down" 
> in the last 5-10 seconds or something.  

bg:

Thanks for getting it, Tom. The application, in this case, is a trivia
tournament; but any time you're using a projected presentation in any
kind of a testing, or question-presenting mode, that has timing, it 
would be of potential value. Like you, I am amazed that it seemingly
hasn't come up before.

I've had Synaptic download and install every little clock app I could
find, and am going to evaluate them to see which if any might be
adaptable to the task. I suspect the sticking point will be instructing
the countdown timer to reset itself and restart. I somehow doubt that
there are any that are designed to do that. I'm probably also going to
find that (1) many of them won't have a countdown function, and
(2) many won't provide a scalable digital display. 

We'll see. 

Meanwhile, like you, I sort of feel that any presentation app should
natively include such a function.


Brewster

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