[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 154492] Presentation Styles aren't.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154492

--- Comment #6 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3)
> Roman is right, the Drawing Styles exist independently from the Presentation
> Styles. Does it needs to be renamed?

You're the one who suggested renaming it... I'm just noting that there's a
category of styles which isn't what it purports to be. It's certainly not the
"Drawing styles" category. If you have a name which will explain what it is, we
can use that.

> (In reply to Roman Kuznetsov from comment #2)
> > Presentation styles are for slides view settings. Drawing styles are for shapes...
> 
> https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/simpress/01/05100000.html

Emphasizing that this bug is _not_ mainly about the documentation, let me quote
what that says: "Show styles used in LibreOffice Impress AutoLayouts. You can
only modify Presentation Styles."

I've never heard of AutoLayouts :-(

Also, if one presses F1 after choosing the "Presentation Styles" category, one
gets "Could not find Help page (404)":

/text/shared/05/err_html.html?System=UNIX&DbPAR=IMPRESS&HID=sfx/ui/templatepanel/treeview

> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/1/1d/IG4202-
> SlideMastersStylesTemplates.pdf

This says: "Presentation styles affect three elements of a slide master: the
background, background objects ..., and the text placed on the slide. " 

So, these aren't styles at all, they're just a way to access the DF of elements
on the slide master. Perhaps you want to rename: 

"Presentation Styles" -> "Slide Master Elements"?



TBH, I believe it's more fundamental problem that the styles UI is used both
for categories of proper styles - to which you can add new styles, and which
you can apply to many objects, and for "fixed" properties of "fixed" entities -
without a clear distinction between them. Perhaps I should open a separate bug
about that.

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