Templates have uneditable text

[CecilFF4]

I've tried a few templates and they all suffer the same problem. There is only one editable text box on the first slide, where you're supposed to be able to edit the presentation title, course name, organization, etc. You can only edit the title, so that first slide is not useful at all.

I'm on the latest version of libreoffice (6.1.4.2). The template I'm trying to use is mars.otp from here.

[dohliam]

Were all of the templates that you tried part of the chtsai-impress collection by any chance? These all have a similar design.

You can edit the text boxes in the first slide by going to the View menu and selecting Master > Slide Master to edit the master template. (You can return to Normal view again by selecting View > Normal.)

You are right that ideally these text boxes would also be editable in the normal view. However, they are currently included in the master slide, so by default they are part of the "background objects" layer, and therefore uneditable.

[CecilFF4]

It just made sense to me that if one text box was editable, they all would be. But you were right. Sorry I made an issue of it.

[dohliam]

No worries -- I think this is a perfectly reasonable UX issue. This is also something that may come up more often once all of the templates are updated to include master slides (see #12). Perhaps instructions on how to deal with this could be added to the wiki? (If you are interested in contributing, this is something that would be very helpful!)