[Bug 145029] UI: Add-animation requires adding before choosing the effect

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145029

--- Comment #12 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #10)


I want to pick an animation effect, and by doing so, add it. Category or no
Category.

Right now I have to add an effect I don't want. That can't be right; and it's
just the details of the fix which need ironing out.

> If we _add a category_ ... you wont be able to change the type of animation.

1. Suppose that's true. Well, so what? I can remove an effect I don't like, and
add an effect I do like. Just like I can put a rhombus object on my slide, and
if I later decide I want a round disc - I delete the rhombus and add the disc.

2. Why should I not be able to change an effect's category after adding it?
That's a choice we can choose to make, or not to make.

> in order to switch from entrance to exit you
> have to delete the animation and start over.

... but I'm starting over anyway when I change the effect type. Although, see
point (2.) above.

> and all for what? To align with a bad workflow in Powerpoint.

Absolutely not the reason. The reasons are both preventing the user from having
to do something they don't want to, which may already be sufficient; and for
making it possible to consider different animation effects - by name at least
if not more than that - before choosing one. I don't care about whether we
align with the MS-Powerpoint workflow.

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