Difference between revisions of "Talk:Presenter Screen"

Revision as of 02:46, 28 September 2009

Another view

This could be enormously useful.

I teach, and because of that, I give well over 100 presentations a year--to my classes, and also to all sorts of other audiences. Based on that, here are some suggestions. In short, I like the first example at the top of the page best.

--One person said that it is not important to show the current slide, or more than a thumbnail of it, because it is up anyway. I disagree. The presentation screen is usually behind you. One of the most annoying habits some presenters have is turning their back on their audience to remind themselves of the current slide. I think the current slide has to be visible and legible.

--The single most important thing that is lacking now, IMHO, are the ability to see notes. I use them to add detail, to remind myself of transitions, etc. I would devote half the screen to that. I disagree with Yorick about limiting these to short bullets. That is very good advice for the slide itself, but not for notes, which should be written in whatever form helps the presenter stay on track. I'd rather have a roughly square window for them.

--having a small view (maybe bigger than the a thumbnail) of the next slide would be very valuable. A view of the previous one is a waste of space, IMHO. I can usually remember what I just talked about, but I sometimes forget what I have put next.

--I would not devote space to fancy things like rulers showing where one is. The screen is likely to be small, and therefore, I would devote as much space as possible to the few things that matter most. A small clock may be useful, but it is not essential.

First impressions

As it stands it's already extremely useful! Thanks for the work. However, being able to control the font color on the notes panel would make the tool even more useful. Currently, it displays the notes as blue on blue on my box... not very useful... :)

Getting the view to work

I'm trying to test the new extension, but am having difficulty getting it running. I've installed the extension into my OOo 3.0Beta on an Ubuntu Linux system. The extension manager shows it as enabled. However, the presenter view does not show on my laptop when connected to an LCD projector. A note on the main wiki page refers to the possibility that the projector and laptop are "set to show the same view." Any idea how to unset it and reveal the presenter view?

Live Edit

I know that maybe most people don't need live edit, but some people really do. Like if presenters/teachers/etc. find mistakes in presentational they can fix them, rather then ignoring them or exiting the presentation to edit it (making it look unprofessional, showing them the computer desktop etc.) Also there is sometimes some dynamic content that could be added using live edit (like total amounts of money raised at fund-raising events) or updating changed details to announcements as they are announced etc.

Lack of Live Edit is the only thing I don't like about Open Office / Ubuntu.

I wish you could install office in Ubuntu...