Issue 75970

Summary:

Presentation Wizard: When opening an existing project, options are confusing

Product:

Impress

Reporter:

mfranklin1981 <mfranklin1981>

Component:

Assignee:

AOO issues mailing list <issues>

Status:

CONFIRMED ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

Trivial

Priority:

CC:

issues, kpalagin

Version:

OOo 2.0.4

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

All

Issue Type:

ENHANCEMENT

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Description mfranklin1981 2007-03-31 20:27:54 UTC

PROBLEM:
When selecting an existing project. Options are confusing.  The control flow is
awkward

STEPS:
1. Create and save an impress document.
2. Launch impress wizard and select "Open existing presentation".

EXPECTED:
User expects any button labeled "open" to open the existing impress project. 
The "open" button should be located at the lower right hand corner of the wizard. 

Actual:
The "open" button opens the browse functionality and the button located at the
lower right, is labeled "create".

IMPACT:
The user will think that "open" indicates opening the highlighted project and
that "create" will create a new project

Comment 1 mfranklin1981 2007-03-31 20:28:40 UTC

Created attachment 44106 [details]
Screenshot of issue

Comment 2 wolframgarten 2007-04-02 08:02:56 UTC

Reassigned.

Comment 3 kpalagin 2007-04-04 18:54:29 UTC

Confirming with 2.2 on WinXP - that dialog is mightily confusing until you get 
used to it.

Comment 4 dcb0 2009-10-08 10:51:30 UTC

This is still a problem in OOO310m19 (Build:9420.
This issue is clear and well written. Please do fix it, as this creates a very
bad first (or nearly first) impression upon the users of Impress.

Just as the writer of this issue said I found it very unusual that the button
currently labelled "Open" actually did not directly open the selected
presentation. Instead it opened a browse dialog. This could be greatly improved
simply by changing the text on that button to "Browse" rather than "Open".
In its defence, it does have a folder icon, which might give a clue, but that
really is also non-standard, and I would suggest that the icon is removed. Non
of the other buttons on that page have icons, so removing it would be an
increase in standarization.

I would also suggest that the "Browse" button is moved on the dialog to the
right of the option "Open Existing Presentation". This would then show a little
more clearly that the user has either the option of browsing for a presentation,
or choosing one directly from the list. Both of these options would be as close
to the option "Open Existing Presentation". At present it seems that I have to
bypass the button, making it less obvious that the button is only required in
the case where the presentation isn't already in the list.

I hope that these suggestions provide a concrete way of solving the issue
mentioned here.