Issue 108271

Summary:

Usability improvement idea: Drag&Drop in the margin of the application window

Product:

Impress

Reporter:

gleppert <gleppert>

Component:

Assignee:

AOO issues mailing list <issues>

Status:

UNCONFIRMED ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

Trivial

Priority:

CC:

issues

Version:

OOo 3.1.1

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

Unknown

OS:

All

Issue Type:

FEATURE

Latest Confirmation in:

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Developer Difficulty:

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Attachments:

Description	Flags
Mockup of drag&drop in the margin of the application window	none
Example of drag&drop feature on old Newton Messagepad	none

Description gleppert 2010-01-12 21:03:55 UTC

As there is nothing like an "idea storm" of OpenOffice.org, I place this idea
here in the issue tracker. I believe it could be a great usability improvement.

The cut&paste experience in OpenOffice.org could be greatly enhanced, if it
would be possible to drag object to the margins of the application window and
drop it there. If one would like to use this snippet again, it could be just
possible to draw it back into the document and drop it there.

As it is alway easier to explain something with pictures, please see both
attachments. The first is a mockup, how it could look like in Impress. The
second picture is a photo of an old Apple Newton Messagepad which had this
feature. And indeed, it was a very handy feature.

Thank you very much for considering this idea!

Comment 1 gleppert 2010-01-12 21:06:08 UTC

Created attachment 67160 [details]
Mockup of drag&drop in the margin of the application window

Comment 2 gleppert 2010-01-12 21:08:00 UTC

Created attachment 67161 [details]
Example of drag&drop feature on old Newton Messagepad

Comment 3 wolframgarten 2010-01-13 08:11:33 UTC

Reassigned. At the moment you can use the gallery to create themes, drag-in
objects and have them handy in every application to use them over and over again...

Comment 4 gleppert 2010-01-13 09:05:20 UTC

@wg: Thanks for your fast response: I created a new theme, but it is not
possible to drag in anything. How does this work? (I tried it in Impress with
drawing objects and images)