Bug 139613 - Ability to configure motion path indicator colour
Summary: Ability to configure motion path indicator colour
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.0.4.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsDevAdvice
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Blocks: Object-Animations
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Reported: 2021-01-14 17:56 UTC by Arnaldo
Modified: 2022-11-07 08:17 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
More visibility for movving directions. (945.90 KB, image/png)
2021-12-06 08:34 UTC, Arnaldo
Details
Moving images: hope it clarifies. (475.18 KB, image/png)
2022-01-10 09:33 UTC, Arnaldo
Details
Hope it helps. (20.53 MB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation)
2022-01-10 21:05 UTC, Arnaldo
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Description Arnaldo 2021-01-14 17:56:42 UTC
Description:
Actually a light grey arrow indicates the movement, which is not the best solution especially in case of black and white images.

Choosing a colour to see them or white with black border would be helpful.

Furthermore, showing the end position or capability to enter coordinates of final position would also facilitate the operation.

Actual Results:
Actually a light grey arrow indicates the movement, which is not the best solution especially in case of black and white images.


Expected Results:
Choosing a colour to see them or white with black border would be helpful.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Furthermore, showing the end position or capability to enter coordinates of final position would also facilitate the operation.
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2021-12-02 12:53:19 UTC
Please give steps on how we can test
Comment 2 Arnaldo 2021-12-06 08:34:55 UTC
Created attachment 176725 [details]
More visibility for movving directions.

See my first report.
Thanks.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2021-12-07 04:57:48 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2021-12-07 13:47:26 UTC
(In reply to Arnaldo from comment #2)
> Created attachment 176725 [details]
> More visibility for movving directions.
> 
> See my first report.
> Thanks.

This still doesn't tell me what I should do to test this. Was expecting steps like

1. In Impress, select image
2. Go to menu x, submenu y
3. Do something
Comment 5 Arnaldo 2022-01-10 09:32:45 UTC
Hi!

Hope attachment clarifies.

The arrows in grey shoud be more visible.
I think there should be also a way to digit the position of destination specifying, as example, top or bottom angles, centre, one of the borders (top, bottom, etc.)

Thanks.
Comment 6 Arnaldo 2022-01-10 09:33:49 UTC
Created attachment 177424 [details]
Moving images: hope it clarifies.
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2022-01-10 10:52:39 UTC
No, the attachment does not clarify because it just shows some state. You need to tell us in writing the steps to reach this state.
Comment 8 Arnaldo 2022-01-10 13:06:44 UTC
Hi!

Clicking on an object that has already a "move" animation, makes appear starting and arrival centre points (red ellipses in the .png) of the object.

Actually these are in light gray and thus sometimes hardly visible.

Modifying a direction shown is also sometimes not that handy.

As all the object position parms are memorized (left, top, etc.): I think it would not be difficult to have the possibility to be able to digit the left and top destinations.

Sorry, I cannot explain it more clearly.

I know this could be an enhancement rather then a bug.
Comment 9 Buovjaga 2022-01-10 14:59:24 UTC
If you can't explain it, then at least attach an example presentation.
Comment 10 Arnaldo 2022-01-10 21:05:43 UTC
Created attachment 177447 [details]
Hope it helps.
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2022-01-11 03:54:02 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 Buovjaga 2022-01-11 11:08:02 UTC
Thanks, now I can lay out the steps:

1. Open Impress, insert an image or a shape
2. With the object selected, open the Animation Sidebar panel
3. Click Add, select category Motion Paths
4. From the bottom of the list, choose Up

I guess the colour option would belong to Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Application Colors.

Adding UX team to hear their thoughts.

For your other proposal, please open a new report ("showing the end position or capability to enter coordinates of final position would also facilitate the operation")
Comment 13 Heiko Tietze 2022-01-11 12:12:34 UTC
Don't think a dedicated color solve the issue. But if the arrow would follow some style (with a fallback) it could be easy to configure per presentation and slide. 

What do you think, Caolan?
Comment 14 Arnaldo 2022-01-11 13:08:05 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #12)
> Thanks, now I can lay out the steps:
> 
> 1. Open Impress, insert an image or a shape
> 2. With the object selected, open the Animation Sidebar panel
> 3. Click Add, select category Motion Paths
> 4. From the bottom of the list, choose Up
> 
> I guess the colour option would belong to Tools - Options - LibreOffice -
> Application Colors.
> 
> Adding UX team to hear their thoughts.
> 
> For your other proposal, please open a new report ("showing the end position
> or capability to enter coordinates of final position would also facilitate
> the operation")

Hi.

With ver 7.1.8.1 you can only change grid colour in Impress.
Comment 15 Caolán McNamara 2022-01-11 15:43:29 UTC
I don't have any opinion on the color of this arrow, but I do know where it is set:
in the MotionPathTag::MotionPathTag ctor at
sd/source/ui/animations/motionpathtag.cxx:339
the line of:
mpPathObj->SetMergedItem( XLineColorItem(aEmpty, COL_GRAY) );
Comment 16 Heiko Tietze 2022-01-12 07:44:08 UTC
Thanks for the code pointer. Now I can draw in any color but none is makes the arrows outstanding. Blinking might work but that's probably too much. And I have no idea where to place the color configuration. Really at tools > options?
Comment 17 Heiko Tietze 2022-01-20 07:21:37 UTC
With the code pointer in comment 15 I can easily change the color of the motion path lines and add an option to Tools > Options > Application Colors.

But simply making it to blue, or any other color, wont solve the problem since different slides require individual colors.

Ideally we can modify the color/line style per document/slide/line but this requires to save it with the document. Meaning the specification needs to cover the information for cross-plattform/application behavior or some extra value only used in LibreOffice not backward compatible.
Comment 18 Caolán McNamara 2022-01-20 08:43:36 UTC
a competitive analysis to see what other similar applications do might be indicative?
Comment 19 Heiko Tietze 2022-05-10 08:42:05 UTC
Had the chance now to compare with MS PP. It shows the MP as thin, dotted, light-grey line and I don't see an option to change this.

If changing the line color of the MP is not feasible (wouldn't invest too much effort) I was thinking to pick up the color from the shape. But that's not gonna fly since the object may be a transparent text box, have gradients, is an image etc. How about showing the original object as tiny thumbnail at the end? Probably not solving the issue...
Comment 20 QA Administrators 2022-11-07 03:38:53 UTC
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