MS PowerPoint includes a feature called "SmartArt". It provides a means of automating various kinds of graphical layouts of lists. I believe it was introduced with MS Office 2007.
I'm not a Windows user, and in the flavours of Linux I have on my machines (Ubuntu and Mint) I use LibreOffice. At the moment, this feature is not available in Impress, and my hunch is that it's unlikely to show up any time soon.
So my (simple) question: is there an independent application that can do what SmartArt does (automate different graphical layouts of lists), and in particular which run on Linux?