Bug 37956 - UI: Usability improvement idea: Drag&Drop in the margin of the application window in Impress
Summary: UI: Usability improvement idea: Drag&Drop in the margin of the application wi...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.3.2 release
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Impress-UX
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Reported: 2011-06-05 10:57 UTC by gleppert
Modified: 2018-01-02 23:35 UTC (History)
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Mockup of drag&drop in the margin of the application window (375.25 KB, application/x-coremedia-dynamic)
2011-06-05 10:57 UTC, gleppert
Details
Example of drag&drop feature on old Newton Messagepad (718.64 KB, application/x-coremedia-dynamic)
2011-06-05 10:58 UTC, gleppert
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Description gleppert 2011-06-05 10:57:53 UTC
Created attachment 47567 [details]
 Mockup of drag&drop in the margin of the application window

I believe this could be a great usability improvement in LibreOffice Impress.

The cut&paste experience in OOo/LO could be greatly enhanced, if it would be possible to drag object to the margins of the application window and drop it there. If one would like to use this snippet again, it could be just possible to draw it back into the document and drop it there. As it is alway easier to explain something with pictures, please see attached images. 

The first image is a mockup, how it could look like in Impress. The second picture is a photo of an old Apple Newton Messagepad which had this great feature. And indeed, it was a very handy feature in the Newton Messagepad. Thank you very much for considering this idea!
Comment 1 gleppert 2011-06-05 10:58:47 UTC
Created attachment 47568 [details]
 Example of drag&drop feature on old Newton Messagepad
Comment 2 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:04:57 UTC
[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Comment 3 gleppert 2012-03-15 10:46:59 UTC
This enhancement is still valid in current versions of LibreOffice