[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 152655] Introduce a Slide/Page style category in Impress

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152655

--- Comment #2 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Cor Nouws from comment #1)
> Hi Eyal,
> 
> How would your idea interfere with the possibilities offered by the existing
> feature Master Slides?

This is a fair question. In some senses, yes, but I believe we can think of it
as "overlap" with the feature of Master Slides. Let me try and elaborate.

I would say the master slide view is a lot like a way to edit slide styles by
modifying a concrete slide. So, imagine instead of the dialog for character
style dialog we had a box with a single character, and that we could use
direct-formatting on that character - and the change would apply to every
character associated somehow with that "master character".

The analogy is not perfect, mostly because you can do other things on a master
slide: 

* You can introduce drawing objects which are static on the slides with a
chosen master.
* You can position and format modifiable objects on the slide (e.g. the title
area and content area), affecting default positions on the slides - that's not
part of what I would consider the "slide style"

but there are also things you can't do:

* You can't have masters inherit from each other
* Not all changes on the master slide apply to the slides using this master,
and not just due to DF on those slides. (Although this non-application may be a
bug; or it may only be limited to styling of the modifiable slide elements
rather than styling of the slide itself)
* Some changes you make to the master actually apply to all slides, e.g. slide
dimensions


Now, back to my suggestion that this could be an "overlap" rather than a clash
- we could, for example, have the changes to the slide master automatically
apply to a generated/induced slide style; and when setting a slide to have a
certain master, have that master's slide style constitute the non-master
slide's default slide style, to which it starts out as being set.

One could of course go in the other direction, of having slide styles
representing different masters, or limiting the scope of what you can do in
masters with DF of the slide etc. - but I'm not sure what I think about that.

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