GSoC 2009 Better Masterpages by dhan0

I would like to work on the idea improving the master pages for allowing editable tezt frames.I feel that editing the masterpages should be made more flexible. We had talked on the IRC channel about the same and you had left a message to me to mail you regarding the ideas.

These are the ideas I would like to work upon :

1) I feel that it is an added advantage if a preview is available -how a particular page would look if a selected masterpage is applied ,in the "Apply Master Page" dialogue box that appears on doing Page-> Apply Master Page

2) If the available masterpages are listed under the Page option,its easy to select the same.

3)Moreover,if there is a listing of the masterpage(s) used in the current page(s) and an option to edit the objects in the masterpage applied on the current page as and when required and revert back to the original masterpage whenever needed should be incorporated.