[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136790] New: presenter console: add option to show it in a seperate window (feature request, UI)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136790

            Bug ID: 136790
           Summary: presenter console: add option to show it in a seperate
                    window (feature request, UI)
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.2.5.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Impress
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: mathematikus at gmx.de

When showing a slide show with Impress, and using the "presenter console", then
this presenter console is always shown in full screen mode.

This makes troubles to me in the following, currently very commmon usecase:

I want to show an Impress slide show in a video conference (i.e. hold an online
lecture). I even have two monitors available for this. But currently I am
unable to easily see the three things at once that I would like to see at once:
* the presentation itself (on one full screen, this screen is shared with the
video conference tool)
* the slide notes, as shown on the presenter console
* the window of the video conferencing tool itself.

An (presumably not too difficult) improvement would be to

    give the user an option to show the presenter console content 
    not "full screen" but inside a normal "window". 

My monitor (and I assume this is not uncommon) would easily be big enough to
show the windows with an Impress presenter console next to a second window with
the video conferencing software. But since the presenter console can ONLY run
full screen, this doesn't work yet.

This feature request is similar to bug 33495, but not identical, since I want
to have the possibility to have free screen space next to the presenter console
always (and not only once in a while, when minimizing the presenter console).
But giving my suggested option to the user will then also fix bug 33495.

I am aways of the workaround, mentiond in bug 33495, to use Alt-Tab key to
achieve a similar setup. But this workaround is sub-optimal. For example one
can only use the video conferencing window then in a very elongated horizontal
layout, because the presenter console puts the slide notes always in the top
right corner of the full screen.

Please consider to improve LibreOffice to make it more "Corona useful", this
would also be a very good feature that MS Office (to my knowledge) does not
have yet.

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