Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 27646
disable hour-glass on a loading presentation
Last modified: 2023-06-24 20:30:56 UTC
When a started presentation in impress is loading, there is a little hour-glass in the left bottom corner. I would like a way to disable it. I don't think this is a very big thing so I hope that it can be fixed for at least 2.0.
reassigned to bh
Fixing this is important for people who want to use Impress to do automated slideshows which contain large pictures, especially when relatively slow low-power hardware is used (e.g. a VIA Epia or similar board). Having the sand-timer is useful for doing a presentation, but is distracting for automated slideshows.
*** Issue 27646 has been confirmed by votes. ***
If you're trying to achieve "Presentation Zen" and keep people focused, having a little hourglass icon at the bottom left distracts from that goal. It has to distract people in the audience, and even if it doesn't, it distracts me. I would greatly appreciate making this an option, as I haven't managed to get the workaround to work: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=69520&highlight=hourglass
The hourglass cheapens the whole appearance of the slideshow. It should be disabled by default or at the very least we should have the option of disabling it. I, like others, thought it was the cursor comming into the foreground between slides.
I just run into the same issue: The hourglass is a really annoying distraction when running an automatic slideshow. Please make it optional.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".
Maybe it is time to comment the code out: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/blob/trunk/main/sd/source/ui/slideshow/slideshowimpl.cxx#L1196
And: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/blob/trunk/main/slideshow/source/engine/slideshowimpl.cxx#L1810
Hmm, when do you see the hourglass? I don't see it, in my presentations, on Linux.
(In reply to Peter from comment #10) > Hmm, when do you see the hourglass? > I don't see it, in my presentations, on Linux. Every time a slide changes. Low left corner. On a fast machine it is only visible shortly, but still annoying.
Ahh, yea that is not apropriate anymore. I agree lets remove it.
A quick (dirty) fix for 4.1.X would be to make "waiticon.png" completely transparent. Another idea would be to increase the time before the hourglass is shown. That also would be possible for 4.1.X. The best solution would be to make the use of the icon optional. This could be selectable in 'Slide Show - Slide Show Settings' and would require UI changes. This would be the path for trunk/AOO42X.
Maybe this is the place to look at: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/blob/trunk/main/slideshow/source/engine/waitsymbol.cxx#L82