When focus is outside the notes pane, slides can always be switched by pressing PgUp or PgDown. Inside the notes pane PgUp and PgDown scroll the text. The following criteria should be fulfilled: - slides can be switches with the keyboard - keyboard shortcuts don't depend on which UI element is in focus (at least one shortcut should always works to switch slides) - Impress having (mostly) the same keyboard shortcuts as Powerpoint, so users can easily switch over from MS Office A common use case might be, when a user has created all slides and is then looking trough all of them, adding notes for holding the presentation. In this case the user will add a note to a slide and then move to the next slide. The current behavior was introduced by this commit to resemble the behavior of Powerpoint. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/168008 Some information on keyboard shortcuts in Impress and Powerpoint. https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/04/01010000.html https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/simpress/guide/keyboard.html https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/simpress/04/01020000.html https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-keyboard-shortcuts-to-deliver-powerpoint-presentations-1524ffce-bd2a-45f4-9a7f-f18b992b93a0 Impress behavior: One other important bit of information might be, that when focus is inside a text element in the middle "content pane", pressing CTRL-PgUp / CTRL-PgDown makes the cursor scroll. While pressing only PgUp / PgDown in that situation switches to the previous / next slide.
Confirmed the behavior. tagged as needsUXEval, and cc'd Heiko Tietze.
Current keyboard navigation inside the Notes Pane matches that of PP: pgUp/pgDown scrolls the NP, not the slides. Changing the behavior to scroll slides instead would make scrolling the note text more inconvenient (using up/down arrows or mouse wheel). For me the current state is fine, NAB.
If I press PgUp/Down in the Notes view it jumps to the next slide whether the text editing mode is active or the slide is in focus. Can you provide some STR?
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > If I press PgUp/Down in the Notes view The report is about the Notes Pane (the docking window that appears on the bottom) and not Notes View (the editing mode) Notes Pane is enabled via View->Notes Pane
(In reply to Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) from comment #2) > For me the current state is fine, NAB. What do you use to move to another slide, when in the Notes Pane? I do not notice any combination with PgUp/PgDwn that works for me. (Ubuntu 24.04.1 GNOME)
We discussed the topic in the design meeting. It boils down to how users understand the notes pane: as part of the primary UI with all flexibility from UNO or as a system-driven control. We have controversial opinions whether the notes pane needs interactions but the majority agrees with the request. And actually adding the functionality bears no harm beyond implementation and maintenance effort.