Re: [pinpoint] Some ideas.

[Chris Charles <chris ccharles ca>]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:17:25 -0200, Adjamilton Júnior wrote:
>  
>
> > I have started to work on a visual slide picker already. I hope to
> > submit a patch soon.
>
> Nice.
>  
>
> > I disagree that the picker should only be shown on the speaker
> > screen when it is available--I have found that people in the
> > audience often will say something like "Can you go back to that
> > diagram? No, not that one... Maybe the one before? No, that's not
> it
> > either..." Having the picker visible to the audience allows viewers
> > to see an overview of the presentation and say something like,
> > "three slides back".
>
> I agree with Øyvind because will be strange the audience see the
> speaker notes. 
>
> Júnior

I wasn't suggesting that the speaker notes would be visible on the 
slide picker, or "index screen" as I've been calling it.

The index screen, at least the simple on that I have started working 
on, is simply a grid of slides. When "zoomed out" a user will be able to 
click on a particular slide to "zoom in" on it. For instance:


   Main         Speaker
+----------+  +--+--------+
|          |  +--+-+ Note |
| Slide 3  |  | 3  | Three|
|          |  +--+-+      |
+----------+  +--+--------+


Zoom out with 'I' for 'index'.


   Main          Speaker
+-----+-----+  +--+--------+
|  1  |  2  |  +--+-+ Note |
+-----+-----+  | 3  | Three|
|  3  |  4  |  +--+-+      |
+-----+-----+  +--+--------+


Click Slide 2, or select it with arrow keys.


   Main         Speaker
+----------+  +--+--------+
|          |  +--+-+ Note |
| Slide 2  |  | 2  | Two  |
|          |  +--+-+      |
+----------+  +--+--------+


I haven't considered whether or how the "index view" would be 
represented on the speaker screen. For now I'd like to get it working in 
the main window. I do think that the ability to give the audience a 
visual overview of the slides is a useful feature.

~Chris