Description list in beamer tableofcontents

Question

I know that i can turn the table of contents in a beamer presentation from a numbered list to a bullet list by adding \setbeamertemplate{section in toc}[ball unnumbered] to the preamble.

But how can I make it resemble a description list? I would like for each entry in the toc to start with "Section #." and then show the section's title.

Section 10.5 of the beamer user guide says the following:

If none of the above options suits you, you have to change the templates section in toc and subsection in toc directly.

but gives no guidance as to how to do it.

Answer 1

You can define your own template:

\documentclass{beamer}


\setbeamertemplate{section in toc}{Section \inserttocsectionnumber: \inserttocsection\par}


\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
    \tableofcontents
\end{frame} 

\section{title}
\begin{frame}
    abc
\end{frame} 

\section{another title}
\begin{frame}
    abc
\end{frame} 

\end{document}