If a slide is imported into a presentation from another presentation, any comments attached to the slide are NOT imported. I verified this behaviour using the menu "Insert > File" option as well as simply dragging a slide from one presentation to another. In both cases, a comment attached to the imported slide was lost. Verified on both Linux x64 & Windows. The severity is debatable as many may not care about comments, yet this behaviour does represent a subtle data loss which might not be immediately noticed. Keep in mind that AFAIK importing slides from one presentation to another is currently the only way to change the underlying slide template, so this problem can impact entire presentations should a user need to change the presentation template.
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I've added EasyHack to this as I suspect that it wouldn't be too hard to add the Comment data to the existing slide import routine but I'm not a C programmer so I could be wrong :-). I'll also note the issue still exists in 4.4.0 RC1
For an easy hack there must be code pointers on how to fix it. I very much doubt this would be easy to fix but I'll request developer input to verify that.
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (needsDevEval) [NinjaEdit]
The issue still exists on master (5.2.0.0.alpha0). And I am willing to work on this if some developer provides code pointers.
(In reply to Muhammet Kara from comment #5) > The issue still exists on master (5.2.0.0.alpha0). And I am willing to work > on this if some developer provides code pointers. Katarina or Thorsten, Any code pointers available?
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Paul Trojahn committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/2c8ef031af56f5e787e7984e746ffb8b65bf0a5b%5E%21 tdf#63029 Copy and paste comments with slide It will be available in 6.3.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.