Marketing/Events/ImpressSprint2013/Proposals

Ideas
See the Impress hacking page for work items in general. Beyond that, complementing your own ideas, here is a number of specific Impress-related hacking ideas to pick from:

Scratch Pad of misc ideas

 * easy hacks from Development/Impress
 * scp2 / autoinstall: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3ed5ab5e2a78914a38e349e82c9c1575ca635157
 * ui dialog conversions - Development/WidgetLayout - http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/FOSDEM2013.odp
 * paper cuts from Jacqueline's book, and something from https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?emailreporter1=1&list_id=262249&emailtype1=substring&query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=bugquestcontri%40online.de&component=Drawing&component=Presentation&product=LibreOffice
 * or
 * linear gradient to white - ends in grey line in slideshow on linux
 * something from this list: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?emailreporter1=1&emailcc1=1&list_id=253891&emaillongdesc1=1&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&emailqa_contact1=1&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=stgohi-lobugs%40yahoo.de
 * smil demo
 * use boost::proto for bitmap & matrix calculation optimization (and possibly OUString, too?)
 * add boost Math.quaternion support to basegfx's matrix
 * include transogl transitions in random slide transition selection
 * consolidate bithacks
 * use HWB (hue-whiteness-blackness) instead of HSL as a color model. See http://alvyray.com/Papers/hwb2rgb.htm for code
 * new smil animations

IAPP Problem List

 * Fix the frequent crashes
 * Fix the frequent „hangs“
 * Fix and related ones: Figures mysteriously disappearing
 * Reduce load and save times
 * Make, like in Powerpoint: F5 start presentation at first slide, Shift+F5 start at current slide (, taken)
 * Show in the status bar at the bottom of the screen not only how many slides the document has (Rob Snelders)
 * When making an enumerated list or bullet list, and using "return" two make a two-line spacing between bullet points, Powerpoint automatically removes the empty number/bullet point while Impress keeps them. The Powerpoint approach is enormously useful in practice (I know that this is not good formatting).
 * It is very difficult to grab small objects and shift them (see example file)
 * Also, grabbing and moving text boxes is much more difficult than in powerpoint
 * When resizing image boxes at the corners, one must press the „Shift“ button to keep the aspect ratio constant. This is annoying since in the very large majority of cases, one wants to keep the aspect ratio. Therefore, it would be better if one would need to press „Shift“ to do changes without keeping the aspect ratio, or one could add in the context menu of the figure a selection know „keep aspect ration when resizing“ which is „normally on“
 * It would be very helpful to add the possibility to paste slides from other documents and choose whether you want to keep their master design or use the one of the file where you paste them to
 * Improve pptx compatibility: Read capability is somewhat lacking, writing is worse
 * The „Compress file“ process is unable to compress some files for unknown reasons (need examples)
 * In the versions before 4.0, Impress had in the „normal view“ on the slides shown in the left column a small open square on each slide where you could block or unblock it. That was extremely handy, but disappeared in 4.0
 * If the first slide of the presentation is blocked, Impress does not start with the first unblocked slide, but shows instead the first blocked one
 * Paper cut / minor annoyance: the progress bar when Impress opens of saves a file is not very nice, in particular when considering that these operations are so slow. Suggestion: a much smaller bar embedded in the lower menu bar.
 * eps graphics change size between editing mode and presentation mode