I’m not Impressed
I don’t create slideshows (a.k.a. PowerPoints), but my professors apparently love the challenge of homogenizing human knowledge in all its diversity into bullet points and transition animations, but that’s another story. Whenever I open a slideshow, I see this:
See the little box in the middle with blue and black text in it? That’s the only thing in the window that I’m interested in.
My intuition is that most people are viewing slideshows, not editing them—in fact, that’s the whole point of a slideshow. When I open a slideshow document, I’m not interested in editing the slideshow. I don’t want to draw polygons or change animation effects or add new slides; I simply want to read the stupid slides and be done with the ordeal. So why don’t I see something more like this when I open a slideshow?
Also, viewing a slideshow fullscreen is annoying. Do people view documents full screen? How about web pages or even photos? Why do slideshows think they deserve your undivided attention?
4 Comments
November 21st, 2007 at 1:53 pm
You should make it your goal in life to convert all of the amazing OSX-based software to Linux! (hehe, kidding)
Keynote is pretty awesome though from what I’ve seen. I really wish Linux devs would try to innovate instead of try to merely create a free alternative to Windows/its software.
December 5th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
I think the ability to view PowerPoint slides and Word docs should be made available in Evince.
December 5th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Yeah that’s an excellent point.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:31 am
In fact, Evince can display ODF presentation files (*.odp files).
It would be great to be able to open PPT file with it too, though. Anyway, I can’t blame the Evince ppl to have better things to do than supporting a crappy proprietary (and now deprecated) file format.
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