[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 142589] UI Custom slide show dialogs Select button needs a change in the dialog to work

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142589

--- Comment #5 from NISZ LibreOffice Team <libreoffice at nisz.hu> ---
(In reply to Timur from comment #4)
> Multiple issues here, Inherited from OO:
> 
> A. In case 3 problem seems to come from spaces in the custom SS name, as I
> reported bug 142595 for PPT, but looks ODP also. If renamed to no spaces or
> run after other custom SS, it runs OK. So I propose that one to be for this
> issue.
> 

No, spaces in the custom slide show name don't have anything to do with this.
In bug 142590 the attachment 172508 has two custom slideshows without spaces in
their names, yet if you don't change the selection in the dialog this problem
persists.

"If renamed to no spaces or run after other custom SS, it runs OK

Yes because any of that is a change in this dialog.

> C. Once you check "Use custom SS" and Start, even if you didn't check OK,
> Slide Show – Slide Show Settings sets Custom SS. So F5 or Shift+F5 run that
> custom SS, not normal show from 1.
> Not sure if it should or not, rather not. Because if you run custom SS once
> you may not want to do it always. You cannot run normal show from 1, until
> file is reopened. 

But you can reset the range in the Slide Show Settings dialog. The Use custom
slide show button sets the default setting there, that's one of the hings it
does. Also it seems like if you don't check it, the Start button won't actually
start the selected custom slideshow, so it's kinda necessary right now.


> Help says that OK (called Close there) closes the dialog and saves all
> changes.
> Seems that Start behaves with saving, which shouldn't. 
> 
> So bug could be about C, or D - adding UX:
> 
> D. Whole "Use custom SS checkbox" seems strange and unneeded. If you open
> Custom SS dialog, you obviously want to run custom SS, no checkbox needed.
> MSO also doesn't have it. 
> So we could remove that checkbox and have 2 buttons, one Start (maybe
> renamed to Show) which would remember last ran show and other OK (Close and
> save changes to custom SS).
> 

You can set the default custom slide show in the Slide Show Settings dialog,
and the Start/OK button also sets this if the Use box is checked (and made
change in the selection box :) ). So you don't have to reload the document.

So this dialog is kinda tangled right now:
- "Start" shows the slide range that is set in the Slide Show Settings dialog
(All/From Slide N/Custom slideshow + dropdown), not what you have just
selected.
- Checking "Use custom ss" changes this range setting to the selected custom
slideshow
- Unchecking "Use custom ss" sets this range setting to "From Slide 1"

IMHO this dialog should not modify the slideshow range, just like it can not in
PP. 
But I can understand that starting the selected custom slideshow could not be
implemented without also changing the range, so someone short on time took the
shorter route.


> E. Obviously not this bug, but I think that Custom SS icon could have a
> drop-down with custom SS, as in MSO.

I like this idea :)

Maybe also place it to the Standard toolbar next to "Start from first slide"
and "Start from current slide" buttons.

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