https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147797
--- Comment #18 from Pedro <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #15) > The "Slide Layout" in the UI determines placeholders for Title, Subtitle and > Outlines, for example. Such are represented as element > <presentation:placeholder> in ODF. These placeholder elements are bundled in > an container element <style:presentation-page-layout>. > > The page itself has an attribute presentation:presentation-page-layout-name > to refer to an element <style:presentation-page-layout>. And the page itself > has an attribute draw:master-page-name to refer to an element > <style:master-page>. But a master-page has no way to contain information > about a presentation-page-layout. Only the single page connects master-page > and presentation-page-layout. > > Although we can do nothing in the file source we could provide a better UI. So if I understand correctly to have Impress behave as any other Office suite (MSO clone or not) and simply have the Title slide being different from following slides when selecting a theme would equate to having to changing the code? Well, that's why I opened this bug. I believe something could be done. There's just no willingness to do it. > You can base a new document on a template. But then you get all the other > parts like pre-filled text objects as in case of template "Candy". The problem with basing a new document on a template is that I then get ten slides with gibberish written on them, instead of just showing me the Title Slide, and then when adding a new slide just showing me the "title, content" slide with a different background of the selected theme. By having all those other slides from the template, with gibberish written on them, a novice user will then have to search for the adequate slide layout he wants and then delete all the others. If he then regrets deleting any of the others he won't have an easy way to re-select them. I did this mistake often. > The sidebar offers "available" templates, but that gives only the first > master-page of the chosen template. > > The dialog "Load Master Slide" fetches all master-pages of the chosen > template and shows them in the dialog "Available Master Slides". But then > you can select only the one for the current slide. For another slide you > need to go the way Slide > Change Slide Master > Load > Select Category > > Select Template > OK > Select master-page > OK again. > > The UI misses an option to load all master-pages of an template or document > at once and provide them for later use in the presentation. > > I can image to change the sidebar/toolbars/menues in this way: > The section "Available for Use" or a new section contains a collection of > master pages, not of template-thumbnails. You could provide the presentation > name in addition to the slide name in the tooltip. > There is an option to load all master-pages from a template or from an > existing document. > There is an option to enable the user to select, which master-pages are > stored in the document, even if they are not yet used. Presentations are > often created in several sessions and there should be no need to fetch > master-pages again and again. > There is an option to enable the user to remove a master-page from the > document, if the user no longer needs it. This sounds like a big improvement. I take it, it would mean importing the "Load Master Slide" dialog to the Sidebar. It's an improvement on the current behaviour for sure. To get to the "Load Master Slide" dialog, an user needs to go through the "Available Master Slide" dialog first. It's a dialog within a dialog and there's no easy way to reach it. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
