Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Jan-31
Heiko Tietze
heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org
Wed Jan 31 20:52:07 UTC 2024
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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