https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171602
Bug ID: 171602
Summary: Add "Practice Presentation" menu item for
single-monitor Presenter Console Practice
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 26.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: needsUXEval
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Impress
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Recently, I was preparing for a presentation. The night before I was supposed
to go on stage in my hotel room, I couldn't figure out how to practice my
presentation with the presenter console that I would be using on stage. This
had not been a problem for me during the entire preparation process because my
normal setup is a two-monitor setup. But we don't have a discoverable way for
users to use the presentation console without two monitors. In that situation,
when people want to practice their presentations and they use speaker notes,
today, if they don’t have two monitors connected, they have to:
* go into their slide show settings and change their presenter console setting
to use windowed mode
* launch the presentation
* find the presentation speaker notes window
This suffers from discoverability issues, including that the user has to:
* know what windowed mode means
* perform a lot of clicks through the interface
* accept that this will change their settings and remember to change them back
before giving their live presentation
The functionality to display the presenter console is already in Impress. What
needs to be added is a way to temporarily override the monitor check and to do
this without changing the user's settings, we also need a way to make this
discoverable.
Therefore, I propose that we add a menu item called "Practice Presentation" to
the slideshow menu placed immediately after"Start from current slide".
| Slide Show Menu Bar Item |
|--------------------------|
| Start from First Slide |
| Start from Current Slide |
| Practice Presentation | <— NEW
|--------------------------|
| Rehearse Timings |
| (rest of menu) |
When a user clicks on “Practice Presentation”, it will launch the presenter
console in full screen on their current monitor. It works regardless of the
number of monitors present. It uses the standard presenter console as already
provided for. It will always start from slide one and when you escape out of
it, it will exit you back to the editing view. Critically, it will not modify
any persistent settings.
I have deliberately limited this to starting from
the first slide as this is the most common practice scenario and the least
cluttered or complex UI. I have avoided suggesting that we advocate for users
to use virtual monitors as this is both something Impress can’t solve and often
requires a high level of technical expertise.
I have a working patch ready. It follows the existing pattern that Rehearse
Timings uses. it's mostly the addition of the menu item, not net new
functionality in Impress. The majority of the patch is just wiring in the
pieces to cause the presenter console to be available.
I look forward to the design review and, if successful, the code review.
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