[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 87813] SIDEBAR: Incorporating the effects list into the animation tab

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87813

A (Andy) <stgohi-lobugs at yahoo.de> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from A (Andy) <stgohi-lobugs at yahoo.de> ---
(In reply to Jay Philips from comment #0)
> In impress, in order to add an effect, you click on a add effect button
> which opens up a dialog where you select the effect you want to add. This
> seems to be a very clumsy way of going about this when the contents of this
> dialog could easily be integrated into the sidebar with a drop down list for
> effect category and (ideally) a listbox for the effects list.

In this case you would reduce the large box with the custom animations to have
the place for the two list boxes?
Currently, we have a preview included.  Would this also still be possible with
this solution?
If you would have selected an animation out of the two list boxes, would you
then add it with the + button?

> Another alternative is to have a single drop down list or listbox listing
> the most important entries from each category that a user can choose from.
> When a user doesnt find the effect they want to use, they will click on a
> 'More...' button at the bottom of the list which would open up the effects
> dialog and then a user can choose an entry from the list. Once chosen, that
> entry will now be shown in the condensed list for easy access to the next
> time the user wants to use it.

This feature with the most (user-specific) important entries would be nice. 
But with this solution you would have no more the categories listing?  I would
prefer to have some sort of category listing.  Otherwise, you would have a very
long list if you click on More.  Therefore, I would currently tend more to the
first solution with the two list boxes.  But maybe I would also need to see a
preview how it would look like.


Further issues:
In Effect Box section the distance between the heading Effect Box and the first
drop-down list box line is smaller than for instance in the Slide Transition
section of the Sidebar.
The Direction drop-down list box is higher, because of the ... button (?).  Is
there also any possibilty to have the same height in all three drop-down list
box lines?

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