Issue 96916 - Impress Slide Show grabs ALL workspaces, interfering with demos
Summary: Impress Slide Show grabs ALL workspaces, interfering with demos
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 82158
Alias: None
Product: Impress
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.0
Hardware: Unknown Linux, all
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
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Assignee: graphicsneedsconfirm
QA Contact: issues@graphics
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Reported: 2008-12-04 21:07 UTC by noeljb
Modified: 2008-12-08 08:43 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description noeljb 2008-12-04 21:07:26 UTC 
System: ThinkPad T61p 6457-7WU
Monitors: Dual
OS: Ubuntu 8.10
OOo: openoffice.org-impress 1:3.0.0-2ubuntu1 from PPA, plus Sun Presenter plugin

When I go full-screen with applications such as Firebox, Totem, OpenOffice Word
Processor, etc., I can switch to other workspaces, e.g., CTRL-ALT-rightarrow,
and that works fine.

HOWEVER, when I turn on the slide show in Impress, the slide show properly uses
both displays as configured, BUT ALSO grabs all workspaces! It should only be
full-screen on the workspace within which it is placed, not ALL workspaces.

Impress is interfering with my ability to do what I want, which is to have a
slideshow on a workspace, and quickly switch to another workspace for live
demonstration.

Talking with Simon Phipps, he has a different use case, but related.  He wants
the slide show on all Workspaces, but the Presenter Console on just a single
Workspace, and "when OO.o loses focus I should be able to drag windows on top of
the external display image."

Fixing the code to not grab all Workspaces, and providing slide show setup
options to separately control this behavior for both the internal and external
displays would satisfy both my and Simon's requirements, which are shared by
many presenters.
Comment 1 noeljb 2008-12-05 00:37:55 UTC 
I have now tested this again with OpenOffice DEV300m36 Build 9369.  The defect
is still present.  I have tested it with and without the Sun Presenter Console
being active.  In all cases, the slide show takes over all workspaces.  Without
the Sun Presenter Console, the internal display shows the contents of whichever
workspace is selected, but you cannot access it because every mouse click is
still captured by Open Office to change the slide show.  With Sun Presenter
Console active, that is show in every workspace.  No matter what, access to
workspaces is broken when using OpenOffice Impress.
Comment 2 noeljb 2008-12-05 00:55:16 UTC 
I have re-tested the behavior against OpenOffice Impress v2.4.1.  The slide show
was broken then, too, and grabs all of the workspaces.  However, unlike the
current build, v2.4.1 did not behave the same way on the internal monitor, which
remained usable.

In addition, despite *not* having "Presentation always on top" selected, none of
the three versions of Impress I've tested (2.4.1, 3.0, 3.1dev) permit me to drag
another window over top of the slide show on the 2nd display.
Comment 3 noeljb 2008-12-05 20:41:08 UTC 
I am marking this as a duplicate of Bug 82158, since even though the
descriptions are a bit different because our use cases are different, the bug is
the same.
Comment 4 noeljb 2008-12-05 21:25:54 UTC 
Well, I've tried to mark it as a duplicate, but that does not appear to work. 
Please see Bug 82158 for discussion and proposed solution.
Comment 5 wolframgarten 2008-12-08 08:43:02 UTC 
Setting to duplicate.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 82158 ***
Comment 6 wolframgarten 2008-12-08 08:43:41 UTC 
Closed.