[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 142517] Feature to disable autolayouts on Impress master slides

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142517

--- Comment #8 from Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4)
> Regina, what's your take here?

You can delete footer area, date/time and slide number without problems. But
the fact, that they do not exist any longer is not reflected in the "Header and
Footer" dialog of menu Insert. You can use item 'Master Elements' in menu Slide
to insert footer, date/time or number at individual slides, although they are
not available in the associated master. There is a large mess around these
elements. There had already been discussions about them some time ago, without
result.

Footer area, date/time and slide number do not have individual styles, but they
are covered by presentation style 'Background objects'.

You can currently not delete title or content, because that area is used for
setting their text format. Direct formatting of the text is transferred to the
according style. Each of them has a associated presentation style. Changing the
style when not in master slide mode, changes the currently used master slide.

There exists no area for subtitle, bug 102318.

The relevant parts of ODF are: presentation:class, presentation:placeholder and
presentation:footer-decl, presentation:header-decl,
presentation:date/time-decl.

@Thorsten: A hierarchical tree of master pages is currently not possible in
ODF, because the needed attribute style:parent-style-name does not exist for
master pages. There exist a similar request for Writer, bug 41316 and
duplicates. But it would be possible to use a style:default-style element and
make it accessible to the user.
"new from example" would be immediately possible without having a true link to
a parent.

>From point of users, the whole area of "master slide" is confusing. I think,
that a general new concept is needed.

Is there already a META bug about master pages/slides?

We need a proposal from design team and a general discussion outside of
individual bugs.

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