Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Jan-31

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: Sahil, JJ, John, Eyal, Rafael, Heiko
Comments: Jan, Stuart

Tickets/Topics

  * Autocorrect options are very confusing and difficult to use
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158876
    + renaming some options might be beneficial (Jan)
    + Separate the list into two lists, textual replacements/corrections,
      and formatting/structural element (Eyal)
      + everything is formatting and replacement (Heiko)
      + splitting should support the perception (Eyal)
    + Change phrasing, eg "Replace dashes" could become "Replace dash
      sequence with En-Dash or Em-Dash" (Eyal)
      + sure but the function is more complex and requires the
        documentation
    + distinction would be artificial and orthogonal to the M/T option;
      rather than renaming we could add tooltips (Heiko)
    + tooltips could be a help (Heiko)
      + sounds good (Eyal)
      + requires coding though
    => comment and recommend to not change the list
    => renaming is good; AI Eyal: provide a complete list of better labels

  * Non-corrective Autoformat settings can't just be placed under
    AutoCorrect
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158877
    + unclear request (John, Heiko)
      + formatting such as *bold* or apply styles is not really a
        correction (Eyal)
    + no good alternative, maybe "auto correction/formatting"
    + wonder if changing the semantics improve usability (John)
    + camel case label is bad; but familiar to users (Heiko)
    + no apparent issue; all auto-corrections are also formatting too (Heiko)
    => resolve NAB without better alternative

  * Use Noto family fonts as default fonts for all the LibreOffice tools
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159261
    + Noto Sans is being used for Impress templates (Stuart)
    + smalls like personal preference; against Google fonts
      in principle (Eyal)
    + rather add metric compatible fonts for latest MSO (John)
    + to open legacy document with the same layout after years is
      our self-identity; which is not the discussion here since
      we would change the fonts for new documents (Heiko)
    + Liberation fonts is our trademark; and it's easy to change;
      not worth the effort (Rafael)
    + a lot of effort to make the QA tests happy (Heiko)
    + such a change should have much more backup (Eyal)
    => WF

  * provide easy UI to automatically apply digital signature when
    storing documents
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159040
    + checkbox "[ ] Sign document" at the Save/As dialog;
      clumsy solution but maybe easy to use (Heiko)
    + similar workflow but signing comes before saving (Eyal)
    + alternative is to have a default signature defined in
      tools > options > security and just the option to apply or not;
      needs some interaction to change the default, maybe via the current
      workflow (Eyal)
    => comment

  * It would be nice to have an exclude file type option from Recent Files
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159277
    + exclude per module using a string like "csv;xml;tab" (similar
      solution available in IDEs, for example)
    + MRU is a simple and established paradigm; WF (Jan)
    + very specific workflow (Eyal)
    + use CSV a lot and want to see it (Rafael)
    + solve per extension that clears the MRU list on startup (Heiko)
    + better keep the ticket, maybe as easyhack, with low priority (Eyal, Rafael)
    => go for it
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