[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 98404] UX - While objects on a slide are being edited, notably text boxes, the new slide sorter Ctrl+Shift shortcut combinations (see bug 91909) incorrectly receive focus and move the slide

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98404

--- Comment #22 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
This is quite annoying, I agree with Samuel Thibault and I do hope it gets
resolved ASAP. I was just about to file a dupe...

A few other points:

Consider the following states during Impress work:

1. Slide list is focused / was clicked last.
2. Slide is focused / was clicked last, no single slide object is
selected/focused
3. A slide object is focused / was clicked last, its text content is not being
edited.
4. The text content of a slide object is being edited (perhaps also: A slide
note is being edited).

I believe that any shortcut for reordering the slide among other slides should
not be in effect at state (4.) ; and I'm of two minds whether it's legitimate
for it to work even in state (3.).  It is much more likely than not that the
user will not expect slide order changes while working at a much deeper "level
of focus" - so much so that one might assume that a click of Ctrl+Shift+Home,
or Ctrl+Alt+Home, is not intended to have that effect.

That's why, regardless of the key combination change, I ask that it be made
in-operational at state (4.).

Also, note that in some desktop environments (e.g. Cinnamon on Linux, probably
other X'ish DEs) - Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys are used for switching virtual desktops
or other kind of DE-related work, and Ctrl+Alt+End may shutdown. See:

https://cheatography.com/shakiestnerd/cheat-sheets/linux-mint-cinnamon/

So - not sure that would be a good choice of new shortcut.

As for adding UNO commands - I'm not quite sure about the meaning of this, but
I will say that this behavior is more annoying than you might imagine, because
slides look very similar to each other on the slide list panel, so you might
well fail to notice the slide replacement, and get disoriented by the location
of other slides. Doubly so if you have consecutive slides which are
"pseudo-animations" (e.g. very similar content but with a few changes).


   + add UNO commands and replace hard-coded shortcuts
     + quite some effort for not much benefit and different topic

So the recommendation is to change the shortcut to ctrl+alt+arrow.

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