[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2025-Jul-02
Eyal Rozenberg
eyalroz1 at gmx.com
Wed Jul 2 23:04:50 UTC 2025
So, about the view settings in F/ODT files:
On 02/07/2025 22:06, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> * Make saving view settings to (Flat/) ODF files optional
> + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167149
> + low relevance since view settings depend on author data (Mike)
> + use either File > Properties or Options > Security (Heiko)
> + File > Properties removes the author from meta data and making
> the still existing viewsettings obsolete; we could drop it
> + request a toggle at File > Save... (Eyal)
> + strongly against further mutilation of system
> dialogs (Heiko, Mihai)
> + usually there is a function to purged personal data
> from a document (Mihai)
> + sounds good but requires a clean-up of other places (Heiko)
> + we could use a hash number instead of the clear author name; and
> keep the viewsettings (Sahil)
> => comment
I joined the session after the view-settings-in-flat-ODF was discussed.
I will just add that the bug's presentation might have missed its main
point, which is that view settings _themselves_ are potentially
sensitive personal information. It doesn't matter whether they contain
the author name or not; and if the user is not aware
* that view settings are saved in the document (rather than, say, in the
app; or not at all), and/or
* of how view settings may be exploited in certain situations to gain
knowledge the user would not want disclosed
then they may not think of performing any "purging".
Eyal
>
> * Apply vertical tabs design with large icons to dialogs with
> less than 6 tabs
> + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167084
> + VT are nice even on dialogs with 2 tabs (Sahil, John, Mihai)
> + display are mostly widescreen (Mihai) and there is an option
> suggested to switch back to HT (Heiko)
> + icons are an attractor and make the dialogs more usable (Mihai)
> + word wrap might be necessary for l10n (Mihai)
> => do it
>
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