Proposal by Thibaut Dedreuil-monet

Time line frame

A great presentation is about delivering a message/information or even a news in a define period of Time by catching the attention of the public. This proposal is to add a time line frame in Impress.

Impress

As a multi-task application Impress can be used in a lot of different ways by different users. What will make Impress stand out of different application especially from draw Openoffice will be the easiness of its utilization

Our users

Home user 67,43% Between 21 and 70 years old

Uses

Presentation of projects, Presentation of photos, Presentation of results, Presentation of data

Why a time frame?

As in a presentation time is the main problem to deliver your message it is important that a time frame is displayed even if you do not use the time process to change slide.

Enhancement Audio will now be directly integrated to the presentation and the creation of photo presentation will be much easier

Mockup

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Mockup description

• The left side of the slide (part I): This part regroup the menu, the auto task box and the bottom menu to open Part III

The top menu is a screenshot of the menu available actually in OpenOffice Impress on the bottom of your screen. Why placed on top? Because some users are now penalized by using a bottom menu. Effectively more and more people are using a dock (MacOSX, gnome-do, cairo-dock) which takes focus when you mouse over the bottom of your screen how annoying when half of the task you want to use are in conflict with your desktop. It is not the actual representation i would like to see but this menu should focus on easy access to the main function, like Select, Insert, Display

The empty Box is the auto task box. This box should display all the task available to the mouse selection (Likes changing color, changing size, changing order, grouping selection, etc..) I do not know if this function is actually possible so this part is maybe a feature request.

The third box is an easy access to (part III) By selecting a slide you will expand part III and this box will regroup quick access to auto slide,

• The bottom side of the time frame (part II): Time line? I use only changing slide on click

This is the main focus of this proposal. Why would you need a time line in Impress? Even if you are not changing slide automatically, time is always the main problem for your presentation. We always have to check the time when you are preparing a presentation to give you an idea of how long it will take to present your work. [1]

So yes i am agree time is important but I'm only changing slide on click?

I think Impress by making a time frame will expand the use of this application allowing people to make presentation of their holiday photos weddings slideshow etc..

So how will it work? The clock is to select or not the time frame by not selecting it you will have to change your slide on click. The red line is the actual audio frame which has been added. On the bottom of the page there is the time frame. If you have got a lots of slide the previous, next button will help you to navigate to the next 10 slide or the previous 10 slide. The two others directly at the start/end of your presentation. And of course play to have an idea of your presentation and pause to stop and work quicly your presentation.

To add a slide you just have to click on +

An empty arrow will be displayed to show that there is no transition between your slides if the arrow is black a transition has been selected.

Transition inside slide are displayed above the slide by clicking on it you will expand (part III ) and select transition of your text. Maybe an icon cross= no transition an icon play=transition to save you some space.

• And the left side of the slide (part III)

This is actually a copy of the actual left part of the default behaviour of Impress. But access is different You have to click on specific part to open the substantial part. See part II and I

Problems of this Mockup

Space utilization!!

Author or Team Working on This Proposal

Author / Team Member	Contact (OpenOffice.org login name, used for email)
Thibaut Dedreuil-Monet	taiebot

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