[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Mass changes to Impress animations - related to fdo#41572

[Janit Anjaria]

Hey Michel!

I am glad you are even interested to work on the same and yeah even i have
researched quite a lot about the same and as i had suggested we should
provide the user with an option for adding custom animation to TEXT(as in
which slide no. to apply the effect,etc.) Hence i would like to hear more
from you as i am planning to work on the same and hence to contribute
better,i am sure more the suggestions and ideas the better it turns out to
be.

I know that this is a huge idea that has to be put into place but i will
try the best from my end so as to contribute in an efficient manner.

Regards,
Janit


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Michel Renon <michel.renon at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Le 05/03/2013 19:00, Thorsten Behrens a écrit :
>
>  Hi guys,
>>
>> Janit was volunteering to look into
>>
>>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=41572<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41572>
>>
>> and is struggling a bit how to best achieve that. The bug report there
>> muddles a few things up it seems, it is also not entirely clear what
>> should happen if one assigns a new master page to an existing slide.
>>
>> Another idea Janit was pondering is to not use the master page
>> concept, but rather provide bulk-assignment options in the custom
>> animation pane (comparable to the slide transitions - selected slides
>> in the slide sorter get the effect). Though clearly that needs some
>> fleshing-out.
>>
>> Would someone here want to work with him to come up with a nice
>> workflow for this very useful feature?
>>
>>
> It's a subject I've been investigating months ago as it's a basic feature
> of a slideshow software. But I got no perfect solution yet...
> disclaimer : I searched ideas to easily apply appearance animation on
> slide objects and lines in textfield. It's not exactly this bug, but it's
> related.
>
> Beside the UX problem, I've seen something more annoying that seems
> technically-related :
> - enter several lines in the main content textfield
> - apply an animation : every line will appear after one click
> - then insert some new lines in the textfield
> --> the existing animation is not updated and provide an awfull order of
> appearance.
>
> This problem is related to technical implementation : there are objects of
> type 'animation' linked to objects in the slide.
>
> In order to solve those problems (fdo#41572 and the update), we need to
> know what changes are possible form a dev point of view ?
> here are some questions as a first brainstorm :
> - are we stuck with a separation betweens objects in slides and animation
> objects ? is it related to ODF format ?
> - can we imagine some visual changes of objects to indicate the order of
> appearance ?
>
> The idea of using master slide for that is interesting, but will not cover
> all uses case (when a user just want that effect on only one slide for ex).
>
> This functionality is so important that we have to create a very good UX
> design, and prepare/prototype everything before starting a single line of
> code.
>
> As you may have guessed, I'm interested to work on this subject ;-)
> I hope you're ok.
>
> Thanks,
> Michel
>
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