Bug 529027 - RFE: Fast access to Presenter Mode
Summary: RFE: Fast access to Presenter Mode
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.8   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2017-12-20 12:22 EST by Ian Darwin CLA
Modified: 2017-12-20 12:25 EST (History)
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What preso mode looks like in IntelliJ (Android Studio) (291.01 KB, image/png)
2017-12-20 12:22 EST, Ian Darwin CLA
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Description Ian Darwin CLA 2017-12-20 12:22:41 EST
Created attachment 271988 [details]
What preso mode looks like in IntelliJ (Android Studio)

It would be swell if there were a SINGLE ui control to enable Presentation Mode.

In one of Eclipse's major competitors, View->Enter Presentation Mode does the following:

* expands the text editor to full screen
* hides all taskbars, headers, footers, &c except the editor tabs (+)
* bumps the point size up (roughly double? Don't know the algorithm used)

The (+) is that they don't preserve the tabs for multiple files that you have open, it only shows the current file.

Having to type a toggle into QUick Access and then use CTRL/+ to bump the type size is not really scalable to rapidly switching between development and presentation, as often happens when presenting: you show some code, send the attendees to their laptops to build something based on it, whilc you go back to dev mode on your presentation laptop and test out the next exercise or some idea that was raised in the discussion. It has to be one click into this mode and one click out (revert all three changes in the list above), otherwise it will not scale.

This is related to bug#447518 but that has been ignored for three years and does not emphasize the rapid switching in/out that is needed for it to be useful.