Bug 149362 - Indicate slide direction when it is out-of-view
Summary: Indicate slide direction when it is out-of-view
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Blocks: Slide-Sorter
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Reported: 2022-05-29 09:25 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2023-03-09 20:00 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2022-05-29 09:25:09 UTC
When the current slide is not visible in the slide sorter pane, there should be a visual indicator of whether it is above or below the currently-visible sequence of slides. While one can figure this out by checking the slide number - that slide number is easy to miss, being at the bottom corner of the window.

Perhaps an arrow or a bar with an arrow etc.
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2023-01-19 09:39:44 UTC
Sounds like another solution to the problem reported in bug 151170.

I disagree with those super-fancy annotations in standard controls. The list is a very simple and by that easy to understand control. If we add graphical elements to solve issues it spoils the broth.

Another question is whether this is a true problem. The discussion is running on bug 151170 and I recommend to make this ticket a duplicate.
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2023-01-20 13:09:40 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> Sounds like another solution to the problem reported in bug 151170.

No, it's not a suggested solution to that problem. These are two different user desires:

* "I want to see the slides before and after the slide I'm now editing", vs
* "I want to know if the slides I'm looking at right now in the slide pane are come much after, or much before, the slide I'm editing"

Addressing one of these desires does nothing to address the other.

> I disagree with those super-fancy annotations in standard controls. The list
> is a very simple and by that easy to understand control. If we add graphical
> elements to solve issues it spoils the broth.

We already have mini-controls on the contour of the main pane of the window, so I believe you doth protest too much :-)
Comment 3 Cor Nouws 2023-03-09 08:40:42 UTC
Hi Eyal,

(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #0)
> Perhaps an arrow or a bar with an arrow etc.
I understand what you mean, but.. but a proposal of how that would be solved in your opinion, would help me to make up my mind :)
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2023-03-09 17:00:27 UTC
We discussed the topic in the design meeting.

The wish is to have an indicator in what direction the active slide is. Just pressing up/down scrolls to the active slide if the focus is in the side pane; and there is an info in the statusbar. Last but not least, implementing tdf#151170 makes this request obsolete. So we agreed on resolving the request as WF.
Comment 5 Eyal Rozenberg 2023-03-09 20:00:48 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4)
I agreed to mark this WONTFIX considering that there's not much "user demand" for this, nor is it a necessity but a convenience - and that's not enough to overcome the detriments of adding to the UI, complicating it, maintenance etc.