Dear Michael, dear friends,
I am very much impressed how many helpful people are around here even to
help somebody like me who is too stupid to file a correct bug report...
Now, since I have some experience in using presentation programs, doing
200+ presentations/year, I am misusing this mailing to also present some
ideas of - maybe even small - changes which would make - in my opinion -
Impress much more usable.
Best regards
Karl
P.S. Since my time budget is too limited to help by learning filing bugs
(or even fixing them) I have just made a donation to the document
foundation.
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Wish list to make LO Impress more usable (ordered by suspected
difficulty of implementation):
- make, like in Powerpoint: F5 start presentation at first slide,
Shift+F5 start at current slide
- again, powerpoint advantage: When making an enumerated list or bullet
list, and using "return" two make a two-line spacing between bullet
points, Powerpoint automatically removes the empty number/bullet point.
I know that this is not good formatting but enormously useful in practice
- show in the "document/properties" section of the file menu not only
how many slides the document has, but also how many are blocked (or,
even better than Powerpoint, show how many are unblocked) - this helps
enormously if one has large presentations with many slides blocked and
you need to know how long the presentation is
- allow copy/paste of several slides in an unrestricted manner (not only
copy in the sort view and paste in the normal view - quite inconvenient
and counter-intuitive)
- reduce load and save times - especially for large files, saving takes
forever and seemingly saves always the full document, not only the changes
- finally, I know that it is unfair to ask for that without giving log
files - remove the frequent crashes, especially when manipulating/saving
.ppt files and the tendency of Impress to "hang" at certain slides...
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On 15.12.2012 20:44, Michael Meeks wrote:
Hi Karl,
On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 19:18 +0100, Karl Leo wrote:
could not try it on 4.0 because I could not get 4.0 started)
This is the bug to tackle first I think.
Can you do:
mv ~/.config/libreoffice ~/.config/was-libreoffice
and then try to start it again. If that succeeds we'll need the
was-libreoffice directory in a bug report (a v. useful report). If it
fails - then we'll need an strace -f -s 256 -o /tmp/slog writer # which
will log to /tmp/slog - and then we'd want the trace. Really the best
thing to do is to do this via bugzilla, please CC me on the bug
though :-)
Thanks !
Michael.
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