[Okular-devel] Useful page transition for presentations

[Marius Hofert]

Dear Okular developers,

I recently started using Okular and I like it a lot.
However, for presentations, I have to (feature) requests:

1) Some of the existing slide transformations should change according to the
direction in which the slides are viewed. For example, assume you use "Wipe Up"
as transition. When turning pages *backwards*, it confuses both the audience and
the presenter, since the pages are also wiped up. The correct behaviour should
(IMHO) be "Wipe Down", so that one gets a feeling for whether the pages are
turned forward or backward. Similarly for "Wipe Left" and "Wipe Right"

2) Most of the transitions do not look professional (personal opinion), they are
too fancy to be applied at serious conferences. Originally coming from Mac OS X,
I liked a transition Skim had (not 100% sure if it was Skim but I guess so). The
idea was similar to the transition "Dissolve", but the latter looks pretty much
like a battle of pixels. I would therefore suggest a new, serious transition,
suitable for scientific conferences. It should fade out the content of a slide
to the background/white (within a time frame of 2-3 seconds, say, or something
which can be specified by the user). This gives a "smooth transition" between
slides and not a distracting one.

Hope this is helpful.

Cheers,

Marius