Bug 166649 - SLIDESHOW UI Possibility of changing "mouse as pen" ink-color w/o navigating the popup menu
Summary: SLIDESHOW UI Possibility of changing "mouse as pen" ink-color w/o navigating ...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: annotation(pen)
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Reported: 2025-05-19 15:36 UTC by Alex
Modified: 2025-06-24 23:46 UTC (History)
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Description Alex 2025-05-19 15:36:08 UTC
Description:
I use the "mouse as pen" feature a lot in lectures, and I would love to see a possibility to somehow change the color of the "ink" without the need to navigate the popup menu of the presentation.

Steps to Reproduce:
Start a presentation with "mouse as pen" enabled.

Actual Results:
To change the ink color, I need to right-click on the presentation (seems not to be possible on the presenter's screen, I need to go to the "actual" presentation screen) and select "Change Color..." and then select from a Color Dialog.

Expected Results:
It would be nice to be able to either:
- select a color on the presenter console, but I actually dislike writing on the console (it's small on a 14" screen)
- have a keyboard shortcut available (I admit finding one is difficult), but maybe [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[1...4] for a set of 4 predefined colors, or just [R] for red and [G] for something else would be nice.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 24.2.7.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 420(Build:2)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: de-DE
Ubuntu package version: 4:24.2.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.4
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Regina Henschel 2025-06-24 23:46:10 UTC
It is a valid request.