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Google Slides Is Hilarious

30 points by my12parsecs 3y ago

my12parsecs 3y ago
This is quite funny but you do get used to it.
- tuatoru 3y ago
  You don't even calculate the hours per year you spent removing padding from text boxes anymore...
vanderZwan 3y ago
I tried LibreOffice Impress the other day. It wasn't exactly pleasant either. Maybe I should give Adelie a try [0] https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/adelie.html https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/adelie.html
sdflhasjd 3y ago
Speaking of shitty Web app office suites... I had to use Sharepoint/word the other day. What an absolutely buggy mess that was. Bits of the document would randomly break while someone else was editing elsewhere, every table I inserted was in a supposition of "ok", "messed up", and "completely broken" until I closed the document and returned the next day. Random hot keys would just not work or perform nonsensical unrelated actions. The list goes on...
kevincox 3y ago
I don't know what the author has against inches. Other than being US focused it seems like as reasonable unit as any. I think it makes more sense to use an absolute every-day unit than pixels. Plus for pixels the question is who's pixels? Should the size of things change if someone opens it with a high DPI display? Also I suspect embedding maps or looking stuff up when making a presentation is pretty common. I don't like the sidebar approach to it (sidebar should be a browser feature if anything) but I think it does make product sense. The other points seem spot-on though. Although a few are a little nitpicky about getting perfect styling and alignment that the average user isn't too concerned about. > List indentations look moronic when you resize text Oh, this one bites me in Google Docs. I always wondering why the intents look awful by default.
- delfinom 3y ago
  >Other than being US focused it seems like as reasonable unit as any. ...Majority of the world uses metric. People actually do print slides and may want to design it for both printing (where the paper is metric) and display.
  - kevincox 3y ago
    > Other than being US focused
    - spookie 3y ago
      Well, that's the crux of the problem though. The majority of the world can't just dismiss it like that.
      - kevincox 3y ago
        But this doesn't fall under "Hilarious". Sure, ideally the default unit should match locale. But not doing that doesn't seem like they are trolling to me. They are just lazy. The decision isn't dumb, they just targeted their primary audience (even if it is a minority) and moved on. And the authors suggestion of pixel seems worse, even to me living in a metric-first country. I would take inches over px as a default (but give me mm please).
        jurimasa 3y ago
        But it is hilarious. The constant, unrelenting navel-gazing is very, very funny.
- itishappy 3y ago
  How many inches are in a slide? How many pixels? They're probably picking a standard slide size and using inches relative to that, which I guess makes sense, but I think I'd prefer unitless at that point.
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FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
Worst thing about Google docs is the copy/paste story, especially when you compare to MS Office and all the clipboard format converters. First, images and figures only flow one way, into Google docs. You cannot get them back out. You cannot even reliably copy them from one doc/slide/etc to another. You cannot export them to SVG or PNG or whatever, as appropriate, and re-embed them. It's just a dead end. This is a general problem, but a big one. Web apps typically try very hard to lock-in, and have terrible interoperability. You'd think that Google's apps would at least interoperate with one another, but they don't. The Windows clipboard was so underrated. OLE too.

30 points by my12parsecs 3y ago

my12parsecs 3y ago

This is quite funny but you do get used to it.

tuatoru 3y ago
You don't even calculate the hours per year you spent removing padding from text boxes anymore...

vanderZwan 3y ago

I tried LibreOffice Impress the other day. It wasn't exactly pleasant either. Maybe I should give Adelie a try [0] https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/adelie.html https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/adelie.html

sdflhasjd 3y ago

Speaking of shitty Web app office suites... I had to use Sharepoint/word the other day. What an absolutely buggy mess that was. Bits of the document would randomly break while someone else was editing elsewhere, every table I inserted was in a supposition of "ok", "messed up", and "completely broken" until I closed the document and returned the next day. Random hot keys would just not work or perform nonsensical unrelated actions. The list goes on...

kevincox 3y ago

I don't know what the author has against inches. Other than being US focused it seems like as reasonable unit as any. I think it makes more sense to use an absolute every-day unit than pixels. Plus for pixels the question is who's pixels? Should the size of things change if someone opens it with a high DPI display? Also I suspect embedding maps or looking stuff up when making a presentation is pretty common. I don't like the sidebar approach to it (sidebar should be a browser feature if anything) but I think it does make product sense. The other points seem spot-on though. Although a few are a little nitpicky about getting perfect styling and alignment that the average user isn't too concerned about. > List indentations look moronic when you resize text Oh, this one bites me in Google Docs. I always wondering why the intents look awful by default.

delfinom 3y ago
>Other than being US focused it seems like as reasonable unit as any. ...Majority of the world uses metric. People actually do print slides and may want to design it for both printing (where the paper is metric) and display.
- kevincox 3y ago
  > Other than being US focused
  - spookie 3y ago
    Well, that's the crux of the problem though. The majority of the world can't just dismiss it like that.
    - kevincox 3y ago
      But this doesn't fall under "Hilarious". Sure, ideally the default unit should match locale. But not doing that doesn't seem like they are trolling to me. They are just lazy. The decision isn't dumb, they just targeted their primary audience (even if it is a minority) and moved on. And the authors suggestion of pixel seems worse, even to me living in a metric-first country. I would take inches over px as a default (but give me mm please).
      - jurimasa 3y ago
        But it is hilarious. The constant, unrelenting navel-gazing is very, very funny.
itishappy 3y ago
How many inches are in a slide? How many pixels? They're probably picking a standard slide size and using inches relative to that, which I guess makes sense, but I think I'd prefer unitless at that point.

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FooBarBizBazz 3y ago

Worst thing about Google docs is the copy/paste story, especially when you compare to MS Office and all the clipboard format converters. First, images and figures only flow one way, into Google docs. You cannot get them back out. You cannot even reliably copy them from one doc/slide/etc to another. You cannot export them to SVG or PNG or whatever, as appropriate, and re-embed them. It's just a dead end. This is a general problem, but a big one. Web apps typically try very hard to lock-in, and have terrible interoperability. You'd think that Google's apps would at least interoperate with one another, but they don't. The Windows clipboard was so underrated. OLE too.