Cannot find the effect in the motion path dialog in Impress In fact I did not found it in the 5.3 _release_ (Windows version, downloaded today), but I cannot select it form the version list. In this bug: 76916 the last entry says it is present in 5.2.x and I can confirm that too.
In 5.1.6 there is a Custom motion path effect, but the dialog was redesigned in 5.2.
I can confirm that the subcategory "User Paths" from "Motion Paths" is missing. You need to start with a predefined path and alter it to your needs. The kind "Freeform line" is no longer available. The same error was fixed in bug 76916 and now occurs again.
*** Bug 107169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Katarina Behrens committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=17495047e53885a224c2180c10ec7ecece35135d tdf#105703: Restore user-defined motion paths for animations It will be available in 5.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
I think this can be safely backported, no new or changed translatable strings (the strings were there all along, they were just not added to the list correctly)
Katarina Behrens committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-3": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=fd2fe3b370abb38200da04602a28d9696ad12e12&h=libreoffice-5-3 tdf#105703: Restore user-defined motion paths for animations It will be available in 5.3.4. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Katarina Behrens committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=9eae606ebc1ebd20dbc0aeb44e1f760e62afcdbe tdf#105703: Make sure we actually have a motion path here It will be available in 5.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
There are still some glitches, at least part of them covered by bug#94947, but the motion paths are now there and can be used => let's set this to fixed
Katarina Behrens committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-3": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=8501821f3b5ad541c40b5465aab000a6960b97ba&h=libreoffice-5-3 tdf#105703: Make sure we actually have a motion path here It will be available in 5.3.4. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
*** Bug 108369 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***