[libreoffice-projects] minutes of ESC call ...

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hello Michel,

Good to have some brand new ideas... any taker to mentor them (or some
of them)?

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Cedric

On Sun, 2015-02-01 at 13:05 +0100, Michel Renon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le 29/01/2015 17:06, Michael Meeks a écrit :
> > [...]
> > * GSoC (Cedric)
> >      + We need to have new ideas added to the wiki page:
> >          https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas
> >          + sooner the better etc. preferably before FOSDEM: today / tomorrow.
> 
> 
> here are some ideas : if you think some might be interesting, tell me 
> and I'll make some specs/ux design
> 
> 
> 
> 
> - writer :
> when you drag'n'drop several images in a document, all images are 
> anchored at the same paragraph. If user wants each image to be bellow 
> the previous, he has to do that manually (think about writing a user 
> manual with lots of screenshots).
> --> Add something to allow user to select the anchor type (or better : 
> some predefined layout) of the dropped images.
> "something" might be a floating/popup panel or a sidebar panel ?
> 
> 
> - calc :
> indicate sheet protection via something visual in the tab sheets.
> Maybe an icon beside the name inside each tab ?
> Maybe add an option to visually identify protected cells (dim protected 
> cells or highlight editable cells)
> TBD : how/where to indicate if the whole document is protected ?
> 
> 
> - calc :
>    - allow to easily call python/js/beanshell/.. functions from cell 
> formula. just do "=MyPythonFunction()". It would allow to easily use 
> scientific python libraries.
> 
>    - show a suggestion panel for functions, just bellow the edited cell
>      (a kind of autocomplete, with infos about function, args...)
> 
>    - the suggestion panel may allow to create new functions (name and 
> arguments) and then switch to macro editor ; default code would include 
> useful comments (some how-to, building blocks, sample codes...)
> 
>    - the existing function wizard should list functions from all 
> languages (python/js/beanshell/..). TBD : how to handle documentation of 
> user-defined macros ?
> 
> 
> - macros :
>    - reorganize dialogs (I made a quick proposal that would need further 
> polishing) :
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboard/Macros_Dialogs#Proposal_by_Michel_R
> (but the iTunes-like selector is not consistent with the current macro 
> editor)
> 
>    - replace the macro editor engine with scintilla 
> (http://www.scintilla.org/) to allow to edit easily other languages 
> (python/js/beanshell/..) ; writing a scintilla lexer for LOBasic should 
> not be complicated.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> - general:
> reorganize "Insert" menu
> ex with writer :
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Michelr#Writer_:_new_Insert_menu
> (A consequence is that OLE embedding needs to have some visual/UX bugs 
> corrected : I'll file bugs asap)
> 
> 
> 
> - writer/calc :
> transpose the current "table design" sidebar panel from impress to 
> writer and calc.
> It would not answer the need for table styles, but it would replace 
> existing obsolete autoformat dialog.
> For calc, it would modify selected cells.
> The "table design" panel could be slightly enhanced to handle some more 
> options (change colors, text options...)
> 
> 
> 
> - draw:
> when user selects multiple shapes, there is only one visual selection (a 
> rect with 9 green handles) around all selected objets. The problem is 
> that user doesn't know exactly which objects are selected.
> Change that to have each object selected, with their own blue handles.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Michel
> 
> 
> 
> 
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