Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2025-May-07

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: Sahil, Eyal, John, Heiko
Comments: Stuart, Rafael, Mike

Tickets/Topics

  * When inserting a video file, it is not scaled down to slide
    (or smaller) dimensions
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166286
    + large images are scaled down (Heiko)
    => do so

  * Insert > Media submenu offers images, but not Audio/Video
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166285
  => WFM/INV

  * Insert custom break, "Insert Break..." dialog in Page mode,
    show current Page Style
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166100
    + [None] continues the current PgS and inserts a right page as
      next style to a left page (Heiko)
    + current PgS is shown in the statusbar, no need to show the
      information in the dialog (Heiko)
    + agree with the request since we have redundant positions
      everywhere, the statusbar can be hidden, easy to miss, a label
      does not hurt (Eyal)
    + label could be placed below "Page Style:" like "Current page
      style: <label> and in the line "Next page style: [dropdown]"
    + suggest to amend the existing label like "Page Style
      (after <name>):" (Sahil)
      + Perhaps "Page style before break:" and "Page style after
        break:" (Eyal)
    + [None] is misleading and actually rather what is defined as
      default under "Next style" in the current PgS
      + we may change it into the actual style name (Sahil)
      + or go with "[Continue]" or amend the following PgS name (Eyal)
      + resolved WFM in bug 77698 but no good reason (Heiko)
    => comment

  * Need mechanism for indicating which page of a document to use
    for a thumbnail
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166175s
    + reasonable (Stuart)
    + Calc uses the current tab (Rafael)
    + agree with the request but neither a simple solution like
      current view or overly complex; own artwork maybe (Mike)
    + any solution needs to have a low impact on the UI (Heiko)
    + use case a) many documents with similar first page, b) meaningless
      or even empty first page, c) privacy maybe (Eyal)
    + simple solution could be to add a spin edit at the meta data that
      allows to define the page for thumbs (Eyal)
    + clumsy solution and does not solve the wish for a use.-defined
      random bitmap; we could offer this in the meta data - with the
      drawback that a certain page other than one is not easy (Heiko)
    => comment

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