it occurred to me today whilst reading over various presentation slides that kde people are using around the world that the general quality of our slides sucks. well, it's occurred to me before but never with such force ;)
it would be nice if they were both more consistent with each other and looked better. granted we have the kde 3 template that ships with kpresenter so now at least most presentations use the same slide template, but fonts change pretty wildly as do the visual quality of the text layouts.
it would be nice if we could send talk outlines to an email address and get back a completed set of slides that look really nice. dreams are nice things, aren't they? ;)
so far i've been spending the day wasting time at the canada post office, fixing random annoyances like the autogenerated access keys in khtml always popping up and waiting for kde4 to rebuild on the laptop given this weekend's changes which are, as usual, huge.
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How hard are they to make? Doing the graphics for them aren't a big part, so I figure the most would be done in kpresenter to make the template?
personally i'm very fond of this presentation method, created by a japanese ruby core developer:
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/09/living_large_ta.html
@pascal: they aren't hard to make. it's just about consistency and aesthetics. unfortunately it's more than just templating since fonts need to be the same, headings need to be applied consistently, etc.
today i thought about perhaps adding some kde templates to kdissert and getting people to use that instead of hand-making their slides.
@anonymous: i've been using the "takahashi method" for years. not only is it effective, you spend less time making your slides. =P some of my presentations have more text on the slides (particularly technical ones), but many of presentations have very few words. some have none (such as my KDE3 presentation, which is just 2-4 icons per slide)
The only problem with the Takahashi method is that the slides are completely useless outside the context of the presentation. Makes for a memorable presentation, but if you want to share it with people that weren't there, you really need an audio/video transcript, because the slides might as well not be there.
I have ones seen a kde presentation made with LaTeX and the beamer class.
It would be worth thinking about a kde template for the beamer class as well.
BTW: Has KDE Corporate Identity Fonts ?
kdissert!? Aaron, could I ask your opinion on this idea had about mind mapping apps:
http://wombat.nuxified.com/node/148
Cheers. :)
Hi, I can wait to see kde4 :D
Would it be possible to see a screenshot? Even if it looks mostly the same, I guess that qt4 gives a crispier look...
Thanks for your devotion,
Carl
I used s5 with some customisation to give it the kde logo. This is an presentation I gave in Lanzarotte. The advantage of s5 is that it works in a web browser in full screen mode for the presentation, and then you can post it on the web afterwards. Also as it's text based it's more hackable than something like KPresenter. I wrote a short ruby script to take my outline in a simple text format and convert to html for s5.
@pascal: well, i don't know if we need yet another mind mapping tool just so there is one written in gtk+. of course, if people want to, huzzah! note that kdissert pretty much has all the items you listed.
the only item there that i don't think is available is the standard mind mapping format. (though i could be wrong). perhaps ODF could eventually take that on even.
@richard: yeah, it's the creativity-applied-to-slides that is the source of most of the problem. our slides ought to look like they belong somehow and look truly professional. or maybe that's just me and impressing people who come to listen to us expound on matters great and small isn't a priority.
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