[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

Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4)
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> Introducing a style requires standardization and implementation everywhere.
> There should be a very good reason to do so. And since most of the mentioned
> attributes are already available via master slides, the request is invalid.

I'll start by saying that this is not merely a design issue. So, a discussion
in the design committee (even ignoring the fact that I couldn't attend) is not
sufficient IMHO to mark this INVALID. Nor would it be sufficient to decide that
this is a good idea, either; I'm guessing whoever works on the master slides
and slide layout code might have an opinion about the possibility of expression
some/most of that via a proper style. (For which reason I've marked
needsDevAdvice, which I should have done earlier.) And this all is doubly the
case considering the meta-bug, i.e. the fact that there seems to be agreement
about the need to standardize and implement several new kinds of styles in
Impress.

Now, to your objection itself... 

the latter clause of your last sentence does not follow from the former.
Indeed, many of what would be the attributes of a page/slide are available via
master slides. But - this overlap does not make it harder or more complex to
standardize or implement. In fact, it might even simplify the existing
implementation and/or the standardization. I'm no ODF expert, but - element
styles are very natural to represent in XML. I would even guess that the
relation between a slide and its master in the ODF is already somewhat like
that of a writer page and its style. I'm just suggesting that this relation be
split into a proper style (which would be filled out with additional features),
and whatever aspects of the relation are non-style-like.



PS - Where is "everywhere"? We're talking about Impress and Draw.

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