Bug 164001 - Shift-selecting in the slide pane should show last-chronologically-selected slide
Summary: Shift-selecting in the slide pane should show last-chronologically-selected s...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
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24.8.2.1 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Blocks: Slide-Page-Pane
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Reported: 2024-11-23 00:16 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-01-14 19:34 UTC (History)
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2025-01-13 22:23 UTC, Eyal Rozenberg
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2024-11-23 00:16:36 UTC
If one presses down the Shift key and marks a selection in the slides pane (say with the Up and Down keys) - the slide displayed is the earliest one in the presentation. This does not make sense IMHO. Instead, we should show the last slide selected in chronological order, i.e. the latest slide we've marked as selected.
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2024-11-25 10:36:31 UTC
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #0)
> ...the slide displayed is the earliest one...
I cannot follow. Please share a screenshot or screencast.
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-01-13 22:23:48 UTC
Created attachment 198515 [details]
Screencast

Screencast attached. The selection of slides is either 3-and-above or 3-and-below; with the selection of 3-and-above we see slide 1 or 2 in the main pane, but with the selection of 3-and-below we keep having slide 3 in the main pane, never 4 or 5.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2025-01-14 08:25:41 UTC
You really expect developers to put effort into whether the last clicked item is just added to the selection versus added and becoming active? Besides the missing use case it does make sense (add items to selection) and follows the usual procedure. My take is clearly WF
Comment 4 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-01-14 19:34:24 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> You really expect developers to put effort into whether the last clicked
> item is just added to the selection versus added and becoming active?

Yes, why not? i.e. what's the difference between any other minor UI issue? Especially since the fix is probably just a few lines.

> Besides the missing use case it does make sense (add items to selection)

I'm not sure I understand your parentheses, but - it doesn't make sense to always display the lowest-number selected slide. It does make sense to display the newest-selected slide.