Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2025-Mar-06

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: Sahil, Mihai, Heiko
Comments: Stuart, Regina, wodsfort

Tickets/Topics

  * Special Character selection applying another font
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159227
    + some use cases require to store the font with the unicode character
      other are better suited without (Heiko)
    + have a global option
    + block the special character features for non-shipped fonts (Sahil)
      + strongly disagree (Mihai)
    + never a perfect match possible, WF (Stuart)
    + decide per addition via another command eg. "Add to favorites with font"
      plus "Add to favorites" (Heiko)
    + "smart" solution like comparing the current font whether it contains
      the stored character with the same name (Sahil)
    + show an infobar if the stored glyph is not available for the
      current font
    => comment (and make it a duplicate of  bug 155274)

  * Consider combining the "Text" and "Alignment" tabs of the
    Drawing Object Style dialog
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165298
    + huge difference between win and linux for the dialog size,
      see also bug 164351
    + not enough place to combine (Regina)
    + not a fan of combining unrelated tabs (Stuart)
    + clearly a NAB/WF (Sahil, Mihai)
    => resolve WF

  * Add direction indication to mock-preview in style dialog
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165299
    + sounds reasonable (Sahil), no opinion (Mihai, Heiko)
    + indicator could be the pilcrow symbol
    + for "superordinate setting" we may need to hide the indicator
    => comment

  * With multiple table cells with different background colors
    selected, wrong common background color shown
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165422
    + indicate the non-active color by a crossed-out image (wodsfort)
    + show all colors somehow next to each other (Heiko)
      + too much effort (Mihai)
    => comment

  * Difficult to find radio group for toolbar command display
    style (Icon/Text/Both)
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165087
    + Put this choice in a submenu of the View > Toolbars menu
      + strongly against this solution (Heiko)
    + Put this choice in a submenu on the context menu for toolbars
      + acceptable solution (Sahil, Mihai, Heiko)
    + Put this choice directly within the Customize dialog
      + disagree with this (Heiko)
    => do it
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