[Bug 162420] Add deck with choice of slide layouts to the sidebar

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162420

--- Comment #5 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4)
> The slide layout is an attribute of the whole slide description likewise the
> master. And I could imagine to have those option on the Master Slides tab,
> which is badly underloved by developers however.

But even if it were "loved" - would you not need a vast increase in the number
of masters, to have one master for each possible layout? And if you don't have
a master for each layout, then again there is the question of making all
layouts easily accessible.

> Another approach could be to not show these options in the sidebar at all
> and defer to the dialogs. Reasoning behind this idea would be to limit the
> sidebar to frequently changed attributes. 

This would not do for layouts. Why? Because you need a large (ish) area to
present the different layouts, and the sidebar provides that area. Now, it's
true that you could create a layout-selection dialog filling up a lot of the
center of the app window; but that would hide the slide. What you probably want
is to present the layout possibilities on one of the _sides_ of the window. And
that's where the _side_ bar comes in...

> See also bug 110436 "Removal of the Master Pages sidebar deck".

It's good that you brought that one up, as switching master slides is on the
same order of frequency as switching slide layout. And just like we kept the
former, we should offer the latter.

Another point regarding use of the properties tab: It is not counter-intuitive,
that one can make slide-level changes like Master Slide and Transition Effect,
without de-selecting objects - and yet one must de-select objects in order to
switch the slide layout.

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