From koffice  Fri Jan 18 17:06:46 2002
From: Yves BAILLY <kafka.fr () netcourrier ! com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:06:46 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Wishlist about KPresenter
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Hello,

I've been using KPresenter for a while, to teach C++ language to students
(you can see the presentation at http://kafka-fr.net/docs - french only,
sorry). Well, KPresenter seems already quite good to me, now I feel the
need to send you a little wishlist, some features that would be nice to
have in my humble opinion.

Sorry if some are already planned and/or implemented.

- Printing : it would be nice if it was possible to print several slides
  on one page ;
- HTML slideshow :
  * I had the need to link some files on some slides, for now I do this
    by post-processing the HTML with a little Python script (look for 
    example http://kafkafr.nerim.net/docs/langage_cpp-html/html/slide_14.html
    where three links on files were added to the slide) : maybe add the
    feature to link external files to slides ?
  * (not sure if it's a feature or a bug) : if I save the slideshow config,
    and later I reuse that config after having add some pages, then the
    newly added pages are not integrated into the slideshow - or they are,
    but the index is a mess.
- Drawing :
  * a tool to draw an arbitrary polyline (open or closed) would be nice ;
  * even if I set the horiz and vertical rasters to, say, 5, I can't get
    a rectangle smaller than 20x20 ;
  * when drawing a vertical or horizontal line, the line is drawn centered
    in the enclosing rectangle - which has a width at least 20, which makes
    it difficult to precisely adjust the line's position : maybe it would be
    more convenient to remove that enclosing rectangle, and use anchors
    (or control points) like in XFig ?
- Objects' settings : consider for example a text box, which you set up to
  use a precise font, color, background... The only way to duplicate these
  settings is to copy-paste that text box. IMHO a little tool to duplicate
  a set of settings would be handy (there's something like this in MS Word
  - sorry).
- Texts : it doesn't seem possible (yet ?) to have a numbered list... and
  for very simple tables, the embeding of KSpread is a pain, it would be
  very handy to have a KWord-like table tool.

Well, that's all (for now ;-). Anyway, I repeat it, I found you did a
great job !

Best regards,

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