BetterDefaults BulletsColorsShortcuts workout

1. bullet point lists: If one creates a text frame in Impress and clicks on the button "numbering and bullet points", the newly created bullet point list has terrible standard defaults:

• Almost no space between the bullet point and the text.
• No ident for the second line of text under a bullet point. The second line appears left-justified directly under the bullet point. Instead, there should be a ident of the second line. It should begin exactly there where the first letter in the first line starts.

2. hide empty bullets: After starting a presentation also empty bullet points are shown .. this make no sense and look strange and ugly in a presentation - ms office hide them too, so a lot of people are already used to this more suggestiv behavior.

3. serial effect as default: if you have a set of bullet points and you want the single points to f.e. 'fly in' you should have the possibility to take the whole box and give it the effect that they serial fly in.

solution => mark object and define custom annimation (f.e. Fly in) - doubleclick the animation¹ (or click the '...' button²) -> 'Effect Options' dialog appear: on tabpage 'Text Animation' choose listboxentrie 'By 1st level paragraphs' then you have the single fly in effect which is rather unconfortable.

• set the default to serial effect (better defaults)
• make the effect options more visuable (feature enhancement)

4. Default Color of drawing objects: Inserting any drawing object, the default color is "Blue8" which is quite odd and ugly; especially compared to the default color(s) of the new color palette of the Chart module (please see for comparison the attachment to this bug report).

Therefore, I would please for either a changed default color for drawing objects or even an entire changed color palette for all drawing objects (e.g. the same as used in the Chart module).

5. Change default Shadow: Default shadow should be transparent and smaller.
A better shadow effect can be achieved with Distance : 0,1 cm (instead of 0,3) ; Color : Black (instead of Grey) ; Transparency : 60 % (instead of 0%)

6. Change default pen color: the neon green color of the pen used to draw on a presentation is very difficult to see and the color is hard coded into OOo. I would like to see the default changed to perhaps black or red, as they are much easier colors to see.
(menue: slide show / slide show settings & check 'mouse pointer as pen' & starting a presentation)

current:

with red pen:

with bigger red pen:

community feedback

.. above issues mainly results from Better Defaults

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Autor: Christoph Lukasiak (Clu) 8 June 2010