[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

Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> ---
(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. And users are probably
> familiar with the current workflow. 

The layout is not part of the master slide in ODF, but is a separate property
of the individual slide. You can combine each layout with each master slide.
That is different to PowerPoint, where the layout+master combination is a child
of the master. So the master-slide pane would not be the correct place for the
layout.

Bug 62332 tracks the wish to get something similar as the layout+master
combinations in PowerPoint.

BTW: The current import from PowerPoint is faulty in that it creates for each
layout+master a separate master slide and thus the information that all these
layouts belong to the same master is lost.

(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #5)

> 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.

I disagree here. Setting a new master is less often than selecting the layout
of a slide. There are often presentations with only one master but using
several layouts. For selecting the layout of the slide, no pane in the sidebar
is needed. The toolbar has a drop-down-list with illustrations and is always
available. That is enough, at least for me.

But I would like to have the selection of the master-slide in the slide
properties pane as separate section (similar Layouts) that shows a preview,
instead of the current list that has only text.

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