[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 33603] New: [impress] Presenter notes view should be a scrolling pane, not a slide view "mode"

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33603

           Summary: [impress] Presenter notes view should be a scrolling
                    pane, not a slide view "mode"
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: LibO 3.3.0 release
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Presentation
        AssignedTo: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: nekohayo at gmail.com


Cloning/rewording some comments from:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=56172
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=80195

PowerPoint (and other apps) allows users to edit the notes associated with a
slide just by entering the text in a edit-form right under the slide*. The
current behavior in LibreOffice Impress is to show slides and notes as a single
"paper-like" page.

This approach has many problems:
- Lengthy notes overflow from the page instead of scrolling
- Every slide needs to be zoomed in/out, scrolled up/down, because of this
- You have to "care" about font size because of the lack of scrolling
- You cannot edit the slide's contents at the same time as editing notes
- Selecting text is difficult (you have to place the mouse cursor precisely on
characters to activate the "text box" that contains the notes)
- Margins all around, wasting tons of precious space on computer screens
- It tries to emulate paper on a piece of software that is definitely not meant
for it as a preferred target medium (why would we need this if we could write
notes in Writer anyway?)
- You can't view all notes of all slides in a combined manner


*Note: I'd suggest taking advantage of widescreen monitor aspect ratios and
putting the notes widget in the sidebar on the right, instead of eating
precious vertical space. Besides, most presenter notes are meant to be a
collection of short sentences (bullet-point style), which means that they are
typically better suited for a vertical layout instead of a horizontal layout
(since some lines may not fill the entire space).

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