Hi Patrick, thanks for you mail!
Am Sonntag, den 12.06.2011, 17:56 +0100 schrieb Patrick Scott: > Hi all, > > I have a lot more experience with Powerpoint 2007 than I have with LO > Impress. One of the habits I brought from Powerpoint was flicking through > slides while in design mode by pressing the Up and Down arrow keys. I > immediately noticed that this doesn't work in Impress because the arrow keys > are used to scroll up and down in the slide design window. That led me to > ask the question; why is there a huge amount scrollable white space > surrounding the slide in the Impress slide design window? In Powerpoint the > window is 'fitted' to the slide but in Impress there is roughly 800 pixels > of empty padding to the left and right of the slide and there is about 300 - > 400 pixels of empty padding above and below the slide. I was considering > filing a bug for this because I think it would be helpful for Powerpoint > converts to abolish this empty space and free the Up and Down arrow keys for > cycling through the slides. However, I thought it might be better to ask the > question here first since I don't know the functional reason why this space > exists or whether it's necessary. > > Impress experts, what are your thoughts on this? Is this worthy of a bug > report? The behavior of both PowerPoint and Impress has its high- and lowlights - personally I found the Impress behavior to not "mis-use" the vertical scrollbar more logical. Hehe, and I just noticed a really weird issue: try to zoom out (e.g. 20%), then up/down jumps between the slides. However, we know that Impress behaves bad ... so the OpenOffice.org Renaissance project (driven by Sun/Oracle) addressed those issues. I thought these changes were already available within the recent LibreOffice builds. Here is the specification "Slide View, Preview and Sorter Rendering" that talks about keyboard behavior in section 1.6: http://specs.openoffice.org/renaissance/slide_view_sorter_and_preview.odt It would be great if you could file an issue for that - both referring to that specification and asking for a check whether these Renaissance changes have been included (OOo CWS name "Renaissance1", OOo issue 107211). I hope this helped - at least a bit... Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
