[Libreoffice-qa] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Nov-16

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: Hossein, Sahil, Heiko
Comments: Miguel, Regina, Cor

Tickets/Topics

  * No hotkey to apply cloned formatting
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156404
    + ticket was set to fixed by removing the customizability for
      the UNO command
    + Clone formatting is a complex interaction with single click to
      apply once and double to apply until escaped; this complexity
      cannot put into a command (but could be done in a simple way)
    + we do have Repeat (shift+ctrl+Y), which applies the formatting,
      if this was the last operation, to the current selection (Heiko)
    + no strong opinion, suggest to be compatible with other
      programs (Hossein)
    + in fact MSO allows to copy per ctrl+shift+C and paste from this
      buffer at any time later per ctrl+shift+V
    => introduce the UNO command

  * Setting language for Selection/Paragraph/All text can't be shortcut
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157648
    + it's a bug, if pasting w/o format does not work (Cor)
    + possible solution is to define a character style with the preferred
      language, use tools > customize > keyboard: styles > character styles
      to assign a shortcut to this style (ideally you do this in a
      template); select text and apply the style per shortcut then (Hossein)
    => no further shortcut needed, WF

  * UI: Resizing of a selection of columns/rows should correspond
    to the mouse position
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157945
    + do not resize (all columns) to the width of the currently
      dragged column but divide the sum by the number of columns
      so the mouse position remains after releasing it (Cor)
    + sounds reasonable to me, rather with a modifier key such as ctrl
      to keep the old behavior too (Heiko)
    + same in Excel and suggest to not break the current behavior (Hossein)
    => do it

  * Feature request: Editing, Formatting, UI. Option to add linebreaks
    when merging cells into one
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158034
    + agree to use cr/lf (for rows) and tab (for columns) when merging
      cells (and split later with this information) (Miguel, Cor, Heiko)
    + doubt it can be considered generally (Hossein)
    + undo needs to be considered, tab/linefeed have special meaning
    => comment

  * Need a rectangular-brace-pair callout shape
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157879
    + good for an extension; attached to the ticket (Regina)
    + the Gallery > Shapes has some good callout examples (Hossein)
    + adding such shape leads to compatibility issues
    + possible to get square brackets from round (Heiko)
    + but this wont be a callout (Eyal)
    + compatibility bug should be filed (Hossein)
    + having the default shapes from other shapes in LibreOffice
      makes sense (Hossein)
    + adding too many shapes make access difficult and we should
      do it only for absolutely necessary content, WF (Heiko)
    => comment
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