Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Mar-07

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: Cor, Sahil, Felix, Rafael, Hossein, Heiko
Comments: Stephane, Ady, Stuart

Tickets/Topics

  * Auto-size the "Search Results" dialog (after a find & replace across
    multiple sheets) to avoid scrolling
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157207
    + use ellipsis too (Stephane)
    + emphasizing the text that is explicitly being searched (Ady)
      + bug 157227
    + agree with the request to use more of the display (Stuart)
    + wrapping might be another idea (Rafael)
      + rather not because makes reading more difficult (Sahil)
    + ellipsis at start and end to bring the search term into the view (Felix)
    + simple solution covers most cases (and can be done as easyhack) (Cor)
    + ellipsis hinders reading the text, eg. if the search term is near end (Cor)
    + dialog is good as it, width should be adjusted carefully (Hossein)
    + With various scaling factors (2x, 3x, etc.) and different DPIs (HiDPI)
      these days, the issue of too big / too small dialogs and the need to add
      scrolling can also be seen elsewhere (Hossein)
    => resize the dialog if the content takes more space but only up to a
       reasonable width

  * CALC UI: Menu item "View headers" in menu "View" named wrong
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159738
    + changed because of the Notebookbar
      a) have a dedicated NotebookbarLabel
      b) change back and accept the longer label
         + or hide the View Header command in the NB variant
      c) change the UI label to "View Headers"
      d) accept the situation, ie. NAB/WF
    + a) sounds good but c) could be a quick solution here (Rafael)
      + probably with some tooltip (Heiko)
    + a) is okay but prefer d) rather than c) (Cor)
      + nitpicking anyway; tooltip is good (Rafael)
    + icon on the command would be nice (Felix)
    => add a tooltip "Toggle row/column header on/off" to command
       and the tools > options dialog

  * UI: A button to expand the animation picker dialog to dedicated dialog
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145038
    + icons may help, even in the current form, in sidebar (Hossein)
    + icon view like at the transition deck sounds good (Rafael)
    + dedicated dialog needed for notebookbar-only variants (Sahil)
    + on the long run we should add some styles-like widget for
      animations as known from MSO (Hossein)
    => comment

  * Reworking of dialogues Organize macros (make from 5 existing only one)
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120658
    + Issue is worse than that considering Python, and APSO (Hossein)
    + Most things (editing, etc.) are not usable for Python, even with
      5 dialogs (Hossein)
    + Every change should have in mind that it is about macro programming in
      general, and not only BASIC scripting (Hossein)
    + unified dialogs are not always easier to use (Cor)
    + suggested proposal is difficult to implement and suspect a lot of
      side effects (Rafael)
    + APSO is the way to go for Python at least (Rafael, Hossein)
    => comment
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