Sophie Gautier wrote:
Hi Christian,
Christian Lippka wrote:
Hi Sophie,
layer support where removed from impress in our ongoing conquest to
reduce user interface complexity from impress by removing features
that are more drawing application oriented. In the past impress had
nearly all features from draw simply because internaly its the same
application with different user interface.
Ok, I understand and you've done a really great work with this
application, but that was however a usefull and used functionnality for
Impress users :)
In my 6 years of StarOffice and later OpenOffice I haver never seen
one single customer document that used layers in impress. But its always
the case that each user only needs 10% of all available features but
each user has a different 10% that he uses.
Currently everyone hypes Apples Keynote for its ease of use and they
have currently no more than 5% of functionality and features that
impress offers.
Can you please explain why your presentations become *unusable* ?
Currently all objects that were on different hidden layers in 1.1.x are
displayed in one layer and can be edited in 2.0bc. This make a
compatibility issue between 1.1.x and 2.0 presentation.
Ok, so what is the use case for hidden objects in a presentation? You
can't make them visible during a presentation. Do you want to switch
between them in edit mode? Doesn't it make more sense to create
different pages?
Currently I see that there is a compatibility issue, but I also see
a workaround for such things. But if one can explain what the real
use case for layers in a presentation is, we can thing of ways to
offer such functionality more presentation oriented than the drawing
oriented way of the old layer implementation.
Regards,
Christian
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