Description:
Impress, any version   (tested in Linux, Impress Version: 7.2.6.2 [version details at end]

1)
There’s a need for (=there’s missing) in Impress in Normal view a “view option/mode” that allows to show from one and the same odp file (= from one file) at least two slides side by side in one window for comparing them, and ideally also for editing them quickly without needing to flip back and forth between slides using side pane, or keyboard, or to scroll+click in the slide pane all the time between them (currently, in Normal view, one can only see one slide at a time, very limiting.   Why also SlideSorter view does not help: read below)

There’s the need to be able to select any two slides for side-by-side view at high detail resolution. If this is libreoffice-source-code-wise too complicated to implement, then at least two subsequent slides should be displayable synchronously side-by-side at high detailed resolution and large horizontal and vertical size. An option to select if side-by-side (=horizontally) or top-bottom (vertically) placement is needed. On large 4K+ monitors, even 4 slides could in principle be shown next to each other synchronously (and thus edited easily) in a “square-like” setup of slide placement, that is: one slide at top-left, one top-right, one bottom-left, one bottom-right within the Impress window.

2)
Slide Sorter view is not a work-around, nor alternative, because:
Slide Sorter offers only a strongly limited maximum resolution per shown slide-stamp. Even if e.g. one selects to only show 2 slides-per-row, and maximizes the Impress window to a full 4K 40inch monitor, Impress does not increase each slide-“stamp” to fill the total available horizontal space but instead stops at a hard-coded(?) maximum slide-sorter-view slide stamp size (= horizontal 14cm x vertical 7.5cm). In addition, Impress leaves the rest of the horizontal Impress window space simply empty.

Solution/Needed: Remove this hard-coded max slide-sort-view slide size. Allow to slide-sorter-view two slides at high & detailed resolution by allowing to increase each slides sizes to the full available horizontal window size. Make use of the empty (wasted) space at the right side of large Impress windows on large monitors.



[Details of tested Libreoffice version, but applies to all versions: 
Version: 7.2.6.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 20(Build:2)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.utf8); UI: en-GB
7.2.6-1
Calc: threaded
]

Actual Results:
Impress, any version   (tested in Linux, Impress Version: 7.2.6.2 [version details at end]

1)
There’s a need for (=there’s missing) in Impress in Normal view a “view option/mode” that allows to show from one and the same odp file (= from one file) at least two slides side by side in one window for comparing them, and ideally also for editing them quickly without needing to flip back and forth between slides using side pane, or keyboard, or to scroll+click in the slide pane all the time between them (currently, in Normal view, one can only see one slide at a time, very limiting.   Why also SlideSorter view does not help: read below)

There’s the need to be able to select any two slides for side-by-side view at high detail resolution. If this is libreoffice-source-code-wise too complicated to implement, then at least two subsequent slides should be displayable synchronously side-by-side at high detailed resolution and large horizontal and vertical size. An option to select if side-by-side (=horizontally) or top-bottom (vertically) placement is needed. On large 4K+ monitors, even 4 slides could in principle be shown next to each other synchronously (and thus edited easily) in a “square-like” setup of slide placement, that is: one slide at top-left, one top-right, one bottom-left, one bottom-right within the Impress window.

2)
Slide Sorter view is not a work-around, nor alternative, because:
Slide Sorter offers only a strongly limited maximum resolution per shown slide-stamp. Even if e.g. one selects to only show 2 slides-per-row, and maximizes the Impress window to a full 4K 40inch monitor, Impress does not increase each slide-“stamp” to fill the total available horizontal space but instead stops at a hard-coded(?) maximum slide-sorter-view slide stamp size (= horizontal 14cm x vertical 7.5cm). In addition, Impress leaves the rest of the horizontal Impress window space simply empty.

Solution/Needed: Remove this hard-coded max slide-sort-view slide size. Allow to slide-sorter-view two slides at high & detailed resolution by allowing to increase each slides sizes to the full available horizontal window size. Make use of the empty (wasted) space at the right side of large Impress windows on large monitors.



[Details of tested Libreoffice version, but applies to all versions: 
Version: 7.2.6.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 20(Build:2)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.utf8); UI: en-GB
7.2.6-1
Calc: threaded
]

Expected Results:
Impress, any version   (tested in Linux, Impress Version: 7.2.6.2 [version details at end]

1)
There’s a need for (=there’s missing) in Impress in Normal view a “view option/mode” that allows to show from one and the same odp file (= from one file) at least two slides side by side in one window for comparing them, and ideally also for editing them quickly without needing to flip back and forth between slides using side pane, or keyboard, or to scroll+click in the slide pane all the time between them (currently, in Normal view, one can only see one slide at a time, very limiting.   Why also SlideSorter view does not help: read below)

There’s the need to be able to select any two slides for side-by-side view at high detail resolution. If this is libreoffice-source-code-wise too complicated to implement, then at least two subsequent slides should be displayable synchronously side-by-side at high detailed resolution and large horizontal and vertical size. An option to select if side-by-side (=horizontally) or top-bottom (vertically) placement is needed. On large 4K+ monitors, even 4 slides could in principle be shown next to each other synchronously (and thus edited easily) in a “square-like” setup of slide placement, that is: one slide at top-left, one top-right, one bottom-left, one bottom-right within the Impress window.

2)
Slide Sorter view is not a work-around, nor alternative, because:
Slide Sorter offers only a strongly limited maximum resolution per shown slide-stamp. Even if e.g. one selects to only show 2 slides-per-row, and maximizes the Impress window to a full 4K 40inch monitor, Impress does not increase each slide-“stamp” to fill the total available horizontal space but instead stops at a hard-coded(?) maximum slide-sorter-view slide stamp size (= horizontal 14cm x vertical 7.5cm). In addition, Impress leaves the rest of the horizontal Impress window space simply empty.

Solution/Needed: Remove this hard-coded max slide-sort-view slide size. Allow to slide-sorter-view two slides at high & detailed resolution by allowing to increase each slides sizes to the full available horizontal window size. Make use of the empty (wasted) space at the right side of large Impress windows on large monitors.



[Details of tested Libreoffice version, but applies to all versions: 
Version: 7.2.6.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 20(Build:2)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.utf8); UI: en-GB
7.2.6-1
Calc: threaded
]


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
Impress, any version   (tested in Linux, Impress Version: 7.2.6.2 [version details at end]

1)
There’s a need for (=there’s missing) in Impress in Normal view a “view option/mode” that allows to show from one and the same odp file (= from one file) at least two slides side by side in one window for comparing them, and ideally also for editing them quickly without needing to flip back and forth between slides using side pane, or keyboard, or to scroll+click in the slide pane all the time between them (currently, in Normal view, one can only see one slide at a time, very limiting.   Why also SlideSorter view does not help: read below)

There’s the need to be able to select any two slides for side-by-side view at high detail resolution. If this is libreoffice-source-code-wise too complicated to implement, then at least two subsequent slides should be displayable synchronously side-by-side at high detailed resolution and large horizontal and vertical size. An option to select if side-by-side (=horizontally) or top-bottom (vertically) placement is needed. On large 4K+ monitors, even 4 slides could in principle be shown next to each other synchronously (and thus edited easily) in a “square-like” setup of slide placement, that is: one slide at top-left, one top-right, one bottom-left, one bottom-right within the Impress window.

2)
Slide Sorter view is not a work-around, nor alternative, because:
Slide Sorter offers only a strongly limited maximum resolution per shown slide-stamp. Even if e.g. one selects to only show 2 slides-per-row, and maximizes the Impress window to a full 4K 40inch monitor, Impress does not increase each slide-“stamp” to fill the total available horizontal space but instead stops at a hard-coded(?) maximum slide-sorter-view slide stamp size (= horizontal 14cm x vertical 7.5cm). In addition, Impress leaves the rest of the horizontal Impress window space simply empty.

Solution/Needed: Remove this hard-coded max slide-sort-view slide size. Allow to slide-sorter-view two slides at high & detailed resolution by allowing to increase each slides sizes to the full available horizontal window size. Make use of the empty (wasted) space at the right side of large Impress windows on large monitors.



[Details of tested Libreoffice version, but applies to all versions: 
Version: 7.2.6.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 20(Build:2)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.utf8); UI: en-GB
7.2.6-1
Calc: threaded
]