https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115467
Bug ID: 115467
Summary: Confusion in setting the background for a single
slide: UI
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 6.0.0.3 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Impress
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
I know that a reliable way to set the background for a slide is to set the
Slide Master background and then apply that to the slide. But what about the
background property of the slide itself? That doesn't seem to do anything.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new presentation with several slides.
2. In the sidebar, click Master View. Right-click on the Master Slide, click
on Properties, and choose the Background tab. Click Color, choose an obvious
color such as orange, and click OK. The background of the Master Slide becomes
orange.
3. Click Close Master View. All of the slides become orange.
4. Select one of the slides in the Slide Pane. In the Sidebar, uncheck Master
Background. The slide switches to a white background (although not in the
slide pane, but that's another issue.)
5. Right-click on the (white) slide, click on Properties, and choose the
Background tab. Click on Color, choose a different obvious color such as
purple, and click OK. The slide is still white.
6. Right-click on the (white) slide, click on Properties, and choose the
Background tab. Click on Gradient, select one of the gradients, and click OK.
The slide is still white, even though the sidebar (slide properties) now shows
that the Background is a gradient.
7. Try the other possible backgrounds (Bitmap, Pattern, or Hatch).
8. In the sidebar, check Master Background. Aha! The selected background is
applied to the formerly white slide.
9. For extra confusion, click Master View. The Slide Master has a solid orange
background, showing that there is a "master slide" for the presentation and a
different "master slide" (invisible unless applied) for the slide we've been
working on.
Actual Results:
As listed in steps above.
Yes, I understand (sort of) how it's supposed to work, but from the point of
view of a new or inexperienced user, it's mighty confusing.
Expected Results:
As a naive user, I want to make the background for one slide different from the
background of the other slides. To do that, I turn off the Master Background
and then go to the slide properties and follow steps that seem to make sense,
namely change the background. But it doesn't work.
To have to understand that there's a "master slide" for each slide that is (or
might be) different from the "master slide" for the other slides, and to
understand that if I change the background property with Master Background
unchecked I'm really changing the background of the invisible master slide...
that's a lot of deep knowledge for that inexperienced user.
Is there any value to the concept of the master for an individual slide? Why
not just let each slide's background be set individually, if that's the user's
preference? The sidebar would still show the setting of that background. Then
the Master Background checkbox would mean "apply the background from the
Presentation Master Slide, the one that you see if you click Master View."
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
Apologies for ranting and for my possible misunderstanding of how this is
supposed to work. It just seems to me that slide properties, slide master
properties, and presentation master properties are too many levels, and that
the sidebar control labels (Background, Master Background, and Master View)
don't clarify what's what.
Version: 6.0.0.3 (x64)
Build ID: 64a0f66915f38c6217de274f0aa8e15618924765
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default;
Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: group
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36
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