[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 104088] Impress: Insert Pagenumber and insert header and footer linking to the same dialog

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104088

Regina Henschel <rb.henschel@t-online.de> changed:

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--- Comment #17 from Regina Henschel <rb.henschel@t-online.de> ---
The page number field in Impress is the same as in Writer. It belongs to the
kind "Text Fields" and is an element <text:page-number> in both cases. A page
number field as such does neither belong to the page style in Writer nor to the
Master in Impress/Draw.

The <text:page-number> element can be child of a <text:p> element. And such
paragraph is child of a <style:header> element or of <office:text> or of
<draw:text-box> or of other places which allow a paragraph. [I know that
LibreOffice has not implemented all possible places.]

Impress has the difference to Writer, that it has a predefined frame which has
a paragraph with the page number field. This frame is called "Slide Number
Area" in the UI. But you can add the page number field to the title too or use
a custom frame for example; that is via Insert > Field > Page Number. That is
the same <text:page-number> element. And you need not insert the page number in
a Master but you can add it into a slide directly, same as you can add a page
number to any text in Writer.

All these aspects make the page number different from the footer, header and
date/time placeholders, which are pure presentation fields.

Show/Hide in "Master Elements" dialog does actually mean to show/hide the
frame, that is called "NNN Area" in the Master UI. It is very confusing, that
its settings have priority over the checkboxes in "Header and Footer" dialog,
but the "Header and Footer" dialog does not reflect that.

I suggest:
Keep the current "Header and Footer" dialog, but perhaps name it "Manage Field
Areas" and put it into the Slide menu or Format menu.
Remove the "Master Elements" dialog and make the check boxes in the current
"Header and Footer" dialog work the same as in the current "Master Elements"
dialog.
Disable options in the "Header and Footer" dialog in Normal view, in case that
Area is hidden by the Master.

Users might want a "Slide Number" item in the Insert menu. That should not open
the "Header and Footer"-dialog, but insert a slide number same as via Insert >
Field. That would be similar to the "Insert > Page Number" item in Writer.

It might be useful to have an additional item "Show Slide Number Area", so that
the user need not find this setting in a dialog, which has not "slide number"
in its name.

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