It's no surprise that Slide Show is the most clicked button, since it's the only way you can go through a presentation by scrolling, like you can with PowerPoint. I've found this to be incredibly annoying when viewing presentations in Impress.

Posted by Kevin S. on October 16, 2009 at 03:29 AM CEST #

Most documents are just being read by users. Same is true for presentations. Furthermore it is often used as a kind of preview function when editing presentations.

Indeed the slide centered scrolling behavior in edit mode is missed by many users and is an issue to think about.

But the click gives many more hints like that. Just have a look at the 'Bullets on/off' icon (#6 of the Top40). The 'Increase Font' (#7) and 'Reduce Font' icons. Why using bullets so extensively if you use a presentation layout with outline objects? Looks like those objects are not being used by many users. So the question is why those objects are not being used.

More reports like shortcuts, menu items and a previous/next functions analysis for functions like 'Undo' will be published soon.

Best regards,

Frank

Posted by Frank Loehmann on October 16, 2009 at 10:06 AM CEST #

What I was wondering, does the feedback data include the UI locale as well? I could imagine that there are considerable language differences, e.g. in using bold vs. italic vs. underline for text emphasis (or even blink, *yuck*), for example.

Posted by Thorsten on October 16, 2009 at 03:09 PM CEST #

The current data is not differentiated by languages. Currently the user feedback data is only separated by products and versions.

Best regards,

Frank

Posted by Frank Loehmann on October 16, 2009 at 04:22 PM CEST #

@Thorsten: Very good question! Something which I also recently added to my list with the headline "Bother Frank Loehmann with..." :-)

Bye,
Christoph

Posted by Christoph on October 16, 2009 at 11:23 PM CEST #

Maybe a bit clearer: We could do such an analysis by locale but current published report does not use this information.

Best regards,

Frank

Posted by Frank Loehmann on October 17, 2009 at 07:18 PM CEST #

Great work so far :D

Posted by tretle on October 22, 2009 at 06:34 PM CEST #

I'm not sure I understand the statement.

"Indeed the slide centered scrolling behavior in edit mode is missed by many users and is an issue to think about."

Do you mean that the feature isn't there and we wish it was, or do you mean that it IS there, but I haven't flipped some setting for it?

I spent several minutes going through my Impress options with some hope until I realized that maybe you meant the former.

What's really abysmal is the note-taking view. It's impossible to actually view your slide while taking notes. Why am I bothered by a real-page layout when all I want to do is follow along with a speaker and type some text into a box as the presentation goes on?

Posted by twilightomni on October 23, 2009 at 12:18 AM CEST #

@twilightomni:

The feature of scrolling thru the slides of a presentation in edit mode is currently not implemented. Many users are used to this behavior.

The missing note taking ability beside the slide view is another issue we are currently think about. We have already shown this in our recent prototypes in Project Renaissance: http://tools.services.openoffice.org/impressprototype/impressprototype.jnlp

Best regards,

Frank

Posted by Frank Loehmann on October 23, 2009 at 10:07 AM CEST #