Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2025-Jun-26

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: Rohit, Wodsfort, Ilmari, Mihai, Heiko, Sahil
Comments: Stuart, Jan, Regina, John, Andrii

Tickets/Topics

  * First launch welcome dialog: example animated bitmap looks grainy,
    request new SVG artwork?
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166596
    + some acceptance to drop the animation (Ilmari)
    + might trigger motion sickness
    + simple and easy design touch, tab is just a welcome (Heiko)
    + click on the image to start the animation (Mihai)
    => remove it (easyhack: cui/source/dialogs/whatsnewtabpage.cxx
      drop m_pGraphic.StartAnimation() and all around)

  * add a visual preview dropdown widget to the notebookbar
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166924
    + object picker with nice visualizations are welcome
      in general (Stuart)
    + PP provides access to the animations and its settings in the ribbon
      while we do the same with the sidebar; adding images that more
      clearly show what the animation does sounds great, of course,
      but beyond it's not much of an improvement (UX-wise; design is
      clearly nicer on PP) (Heiko)
    + bullet-like picker would be too crowded and limited (Mihai)
    + Sidebar is powerful, and by default closed (it opens per
      click on Layout > Animation); suggest to keep it minimized
      visible (Mihai)
    + icons in the list maybe (Wodsfort)
      + might be too small but could be combined with an (animated)
        preview changing on hover (Heiko)
    + could also imagine a widget showing a list of recently used
      animations (Heiko)
    => comment

  * UI label: Toggle Print Preview or 'Toggle Preview'
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166935
    + keep "print" (Jan)
    + issue exists (Eyal)
    + uno:PrintPreview goes with the label "Print Preview" (shown under
      File in the main menu) and the tooltip "Toggle Print Preview"
    + against changing it (Mihai, Heiko)
    + alternatively "show print preview" (Sahil)
    => resolve wf

  * In-cell pictures
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167017
    + perhaps possible without ODF modification (Regina)
    => nothing to add for the functionality

  * LibreOffice Writer (Tabbed Compact) – Interface Redesign
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166894
    + totally unrealistic (Stuart)
    + make the black border lines a bit less obtrusive (wodsfort)
    + if implementation isn’t possible it makes sense to go into detail (Andrii)
    + in general improvements to the Tabbed Compact notebookbar are needed, make
      sense, and should be done (John)
    + appreciate a toolbar dedicated to simple tasks with the least possible
      number of controls, eg. focusing on direct formatting (Heiko)
    => resolve WF
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