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

[Regis Perdreau]

Hi, in find and replace, we ask for ages to be able to replace end of
paragraph by end of line.  If you implement some regex tools, I think this
request is legitimate.
Regards
Régis

Le mer. 26 mars 2025, 21:52, Heiko Tietze <
heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> a écrit :

> 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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