Bug 164839 - Rename the "Title Slide" layout "Title, Subtitle" slide layout
Summary: Rename the "Title Slide" layout "Title, Subtitle" slide layout
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Slide-Layout
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Reported: 2025-01-24 09:11 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-01-25 16:45 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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A "Title, subtitle" layout example screenshot (40.71 KB, image/jpeg)
2025-01-24 09:12 UTC, Eyal Rozenberg
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-01-24 09:11:52 UTC
It is extremely common for presentations to being with a slide which have some sort of title, taking up a significant part of the slide, and a second piece of text, which is larger than regular slide content, serving as the subtitle, or author or venue information etc.


Impress is missing such a slide layout.

Attaching an example, due to Mihai Vasiliu.
Comment 1 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-01-24 09:12:53 UTC
Created attachment 198728 [details]
A "Title, subtitle" layout example screenshot
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-01-24 09:23:16 UTC
If we add this layout, we may want to qualify the word "Title" and call it "Presentation Title" instead - distinguishing it from the slide layouts where the "Title" is just the slide title.
Comment 3 Regina Henschel 2025-01-24 13:41:18 UTC
See bug 164840 comment 1. The layout "Title slide" is in fact a "Title, Subtitle" layout.
Comment 4 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-01-25 16:45:38 UTC
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #3)
> See bug 164840 comment 1. The layout "Title slide" is in fact a "Title,
> Subtitle" layout.

You're right, and I'll close this bug, and continue the discussion in 164839. Let me just say why I (and many/most users) miss this fact. It is because:

* The layout name, read in context of other layouts like "Title, Content", does not suggest that there's a subtitle.
* The actual layout functuionally disagrees with the "subtitle" area actually being a subtitle: The dimensions of the Title and Subtitle correspond to the title and content areas of a "Title, Content" slide. I (and many/most users) do not even conceive that anybody would mark this area as a subtitle.