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

Heiko Tietze heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org
Wed Mar 26 20:42:54 UTC 2025


Present: Shail, Eyal, Heiko
Comments: Ilmari

Tickets/Topics

  * Allow targeting of styles and formatting via regular expressions
    in Find and Replace
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165725
    + allow targeting of styles and formatting via regular expressions
      would be quite ambitious; extension offers most (Ilmari)
    + use case is reasonable but text processor are typically not the
      tool that are utilized in this way (Eyal)
    + bug 139585 "All search patterns provided by AltSearch.oxt should
      be implemented in LO Writer directly" mad dup of bug 38261
    + trust in extension, whether existing or new (Eyal, Heiko)
    => make a dup of 38261

  * Replace the Bibliography Database by a dialog to manually input
    new sources and to fetch from online sources via identifiers
    for citations/bibliography/references
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121958#
    + replicating Zotero (and similar) requires a lot maintenance (Eyal)
    + prefer extensions for features that are not needed by the
      majority (Heiko)
    + fetching data from free(!) online sources into the existing dialog
      sounds more feasible (Eyal)
    => comment

  * Options -> Appearance new LibreOffice Themes panel redesign
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164970
    + add system, light, dark to themes and drop the "appearance"
      radio buttons; add a checkbox "[ ] Use white background for documents"
      (together with all other document colors except app background)
      and disable the customization in this case (Sahil, Heiko)
    + If we keep the "appearance" categorization, suggest themes could
      be only-dark or only-light, as theme creators may have
      theme ideas which only work aesthetically in one mode; it would
      not be useful to make them include "dummy" or "filler" colors
      for the other mode. (Eyal)
    + prefer single color sets in external themes ie. extensions (Sahil)
    + missing color ie. automatic color will be picked from the system
      colors and potentially change with the system theme change (Sahil)
    + mockup with the updated design created
    => comment

  * Next week agenda?
    + open discussion (Sahil)
    => announce on the ML
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