https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147797
--- Comment #17 from Pedro <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Italo Vignoli from comment #13) > First, you are comparing LibreOffice with Microsoft Office and its clones > (as WPS Office and OnlyOffice are Microsoft Office reverse engineered > clones, and miss an independent development strategy). LibreOffice has been > developed as a different office suite, with an independent development > strategy and with independent developers whose objective is not to clone > Microsoft Office. > > So, a different behaviour is not only expected but also welcome, because it > shows the different background of the two office suites. By the way, the > first software of what is now LibreOffice has been released before the first > software of what is now Microsoft Office, in a different continent > (Microsoft Office is American, while LibreOffice is European). A different behaviour for the sake of being different is not welcome, if it is vastly more unintuitive and cumbersome for users. At least that's my perspective as an user. > Second, in the Sidebar > Master Slides you have the top section which shows > all masters available in the presentation (if you use Candy, you will see 11 > masters, which means 11 backgrounds, which can be applied to each of the 12 > layouts), and by clicking on the preferred one this will be applied to the > selected slide and will become the preferred background (until you change it > by selecting another background). Sorry this is not correct. When I select Candy, it does not show me the 11 masters of Candy. It shows me the Normal Theme and the Title master slide of Candy. That's it. > You cannot consider a different behaviour from Microsoft Office as a bug, > unless this creates a functional issue. In this case, the different > behaviour provides more options and flexibility, with a different process. > LibreOffice works as expected, and this is definitely not a bug. This creates a functional issue. Changing the behaviour to become the same as other Office suites does not remove flexibility nor any existing option. And implying that I should not open a bug, when this is the only meaningful and documented way to start a discussion about a topic in LibO development reads to me like you are telling me to shut up. I hope that's just me reading too much into it. It makes as simple and quick as in other office suites to have a Title slide with a theme follow a different appearance from the rest of slides using the same Theme without a novice user (or an user pressed for time, without the patience to dig around the unintuitive ways to make the presentation look cohesive) having to dig around how to do this. Even for advanced users this is terrible. I'm an advanced user. It took me hours to understand the work around to get the behaviour I wanted. Something that in ALL OTHER office suites is a one-click behaviour. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
