Bug 142749

Summary: Animation effect settings don't default to/persist the last chosen values
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1>
Component: ImpressAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: elya.govallo, heiko.tietze
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha0+   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Bug Blocks: 103437    

Description Eyal Rozenberg 2021-06-09 19:18:29 UTC 
When you insert custom animations, you often want to repeat a similar animation you've used for another element, or on another slide. It therefore makes sense that the chose animation effect's settings (if not the choice of animation effect) default to the same ones used last time. (Specific examples are Font color and effect duration settings - but it's probably most of the other settings.)

(I'm guessing this is inherited from OpenOffice, but am not sure.)
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2021-09-13 10:37:52 UTC 
Bug 142810 is a proposed solution to this issue. Commented there 

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> This particular context menu idea is a tiny aspect of your copy/paste
> request in bug 142825. You describe a precise implementation whereas a more
> generic solution with styles is considered on bug 88938. I recommend to keep
> the discussion on one ticket.

See also bug 54126.

My take: DUPLICATE.
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2021-10-15 18:24:45 UTC 
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> See also bug 54126.

That won't work for effects on different slides - you (basically) can't select them together. Also not for the case of creating a new effect, wanting to have the same style as last time.

> Bug 142810 is a proposed solution to this issue.

No, it isn't (and I should know since I filed it :-) ...) ; I want to be able to not _have_ to copy-paste the animation style every time. copy-pasting is the most relevant for when you've been using multiple effect settings, and you want to use one other than the last. Now, it's true that the being able to copy-paste would improve things slightly, but not that much really if the time it takes to locate the other slide, locate the animation effect, copy and go back is similar to the time it takes to just directly configure the new effect.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2021-10-18 10:31:33 UTC 
So let's keep it with the other requests. I could imagine a paste special solution similar to Calc where you just paste the animation from a copied object.
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2023-10-19 03:15:15 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Eyal Rozenberg 2023-10-19 07:50:46 UTC 
Bug still there with:

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 3161a6c351a2f5f70c0420ee8cccf2eb23de1ecf
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: he-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US