Bug 143202 - Better feedback for animated images and option to stop the animation
Summary: Better feedback for animated images and option to stop the animation
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords:
: 143201 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Impress-Images
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Reported: 2021-07-05 12:46 UTC by Telesto
Modified: 2023-05-19 14:33 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
Example file (78.67 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation)
2021-07-05 12:46 UTC, Telesto
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Description Telesto 2021-07-05 12:46:04 UTC
Description:
A way stop animating gifs on a slide from animating in EDIT mode

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the attached file
2. Animating GIF stops after few seconds
3. Move the sheet 2, and back -> starts animating again

Closely connected to bug 143201 (requesting a way to identify animating gif stuff)

Actual Results:
Well animating stuff is nice to have in the presentation as such. But well I also assume that's this can be rather annoying while building a slides. 
(aside from perf issues.. dragging rendering stuff around)



Expected Results:
So an global option to toggle on/off gif animations? 
Maybe with the exception that new inserted gifs animate once?

Not sure if there is demand.. only a thought passing by..


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 7.3.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: c38d0d501f5eca648bdf0fd2914b57e06f505f7e
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL
Comment 1 Telesto 2021-07-05 12:46:28 UTC
Created attachment 173368 [details]
Example file
Comment 2 Telesto 2021-07-05 12:49:44 UTC
Only a thought.. but have seen enough presentations with lots of animations.. and doubt if those are really needed to be running constantly when editing.
Comment 3 Bugs 2021-07-05 14:00:57 UTC
Hi, 
I dunno if this is what you're looking for. But there is a way to completely stop animations while in the edit mode. 

Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice -> Accessibility -> Uncheck "Allow animating images"

With this, the gifs don't get animated while in edit mode, but will during presentation.

Hope this was what you were searching for. I don't think there's an option to have the gif play at least once. I might be wrong as well. I'm still exploring LibreOffice. :)
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2021-07-07 08:10:37 UTC
Issue solved, Telesto?
Comment 5 Telesto 2021-07-07 15:30:39 UTC
(In reply to Aadi from comment #3)
> Hi, 
> I dunno if this is what you're looking for. But there is a way to completely
> stop animations while in the edit mode. 
> 
> Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice -> Accessibility -> Uncheck "Allow animating
> images"
> 
> With this, the gifs don't get animated while in edit mode, but will during
> presentation.

This was exactly what I was looking for
Comment 6 Telesto 2021-07-07 15:45:01 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4)
> Issue solved, Telesto?

Well the feature is already present (which I didn't know); another story is exposing the existence :P.

I'm was more thinking about easy 'toggle' in the toolbar/ tabbed bar

My intension was to have an option to quickly turn it on/off temporarily (while composingslides ). Tools options is pretty permanent (and surely easy to forget).

Aside from the part of being framed in the context of "Accessibility". Which isn't the context why I intended to use it. At I associate this more in context of say epilepsy 

But well putting it in the toolbar (or menu) obviously a discussion point. I think it might be a helpful feature, but you can say its bloating the interface

Adding it to the customization area would be a help too.. (Tools -> Customize)
Comment 7 Cor Nouws 2021-07-13 14:49:15 UTC
(In reply to Telesto from comment #6)
> Adding it to the customization area would be a help too.. (Tools ->
> Customize)
A good choice to start with

I thought it might be
  Label: Animated Image
  Command: .uno:AnimationObjects
  Tooltip: Animated Image
but it's not..
Comment 8 Heiko Tietze 2021-07-15 13:59:24 UTC
We discussed this and the other topic in the design meeting.

For bug 143201, the place to stop animation is in fact not so easy to find. Since an animated gif may contain unwanted material it could be a security/safety issue when the animation is not shown. Browsers do usually provide more fine-grained settings with "Show always, Show once, Toggle animation per click, Always hide". The best place for this option is probably under View, with default "toggle per click".

For the feedback we should do the same as video players and show a large gray "play" triangle overlay in the middle of the image, if paused.

I would keep the two issues together. It's an enhancement, which typically has several facets.
Comment 9 Heiko Tietze 2021-07-15 13:59:51 UTC
*** Bug 143201 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***