Hi: Someone asked me offline (or is that back channel?) to provide examples of what I meant by my comments regarding Impress. I think the implication was that these were unfair rants. So here are examples that come to mind:
1) I said Impress is a "Work in Progress": this wasn't a slur, merely an observation. One example is that the export to pdf doesn't support anything but the slides themselves. I don't even know whether the developers ever intended to "complete" this capability for Notes, Handouts and such. I just went to utilize a feature that I assumed would be there, and found that it didn't exist (or at least I can't find any way to make such a choice). I utilized a third-party "printer driver" which worked just fine, although it would be nice to have all of the capabilities of LO's own PDF exporter. 2) I said that Impress has "interface inconsistencies": again, just an observation. One example is that if one copies an object on one slide, and then pastes it into a different slide, and then uses one of the arrow keys to move the object's position (the pasted object is clearly selected - handles showing, etc.), the screen display will jump to an earlier or later slide rather than moving the object within the slide. If one holds the arrow down (when, for instance, the object needs to be moved a good distance), you might end up at the first or last slide of the presentation depending on your reaction time to the unexpected screen chaos. This is, of course, quite simply explained by the fact that pasting an object doesn't seem to give that object (and the slide display) focus, but rather leaves it on the thumbnails on the left side. I don't believe that is the normally expected behavior, and it certainly isn't how Writer, for instance, reacts (although I understand that pages are not "independent" as they are in Impress). Again, this normally isn't tough to deal with - you just have to remember to click on the display before attempting to move the pasted object. If you're pasting a selection of multiple objects, however, you end up needing to re-select them before moving - and this can be quite tricky if they've landed on top of other objects. So, if my comments appeared snooty to anyone else who was too polite to call me on them publicly, I apologize if the tone seemed offensive. I believe, however, that the remarks were factual - I certainly can't imagine anyone making the argument that Impress is at the maturity level of Writer. And I don't think that should come as a big surprise given the relative importance (and user interest) of the two. It just 'is what it is' as they say. Have a great day ... -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Deleting-a-Table-in-Impress-tp4108931p4109054.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
