Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Mar-29

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: John, Alejandro, Heiko
Comments: Stuart

Tickets/Topics

  * Customize dialog is too big to display on 1280x800 laptop screen
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154021
    + resolved NOB, Gnome theme occupies white space excessively (Stuart)
    + reducing font size solved the problem (Vince, OP)
    + we might be able to reduce the number of shown items
      in the lists (Heiko)
    + we should consider to adjust the minimum required size (John)
      + 1280x800 is still common (Heiko)
      + most users are on Windows (John)
    + don't make it worse for the vast majority (John)
    => keep ticket in WF/NAB state

  * Clone format of unmerged cells breaks up merging, applies to
    first unmerged cell only
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153899
    + merging cells with the keep option does exactly this, we
      must not format hidden cells
    + copying/cloning merged cells takes merge state into account,
      however, applying a format via cell style, which is the supposed
      workflow does not
    + cloning the merged state is a convenience feature
    => WF/NAB

  * Comment indicator is too small, non-circumspect, easy to miss
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154080
    + indicators have changed recently and are easy to spot at 100%
      but still somewhat harder at 200%
    + indicators can be controlled by TOCV > Text Overflow resp.
      Comment indicator
    + keeping the UI and the interaction simple is the best, meaning
      no flashing for example
    + changing the comment color is interesting
    + corner case, hard to believe it's needed by many
    => move checkboxes and colors for text overflow and comment indicator
      into application color (easy hack w. medium to interesting difficulty)

  * Insert Caption and Caption Options dialogs have a mix of settings
    affecting the whole category or only current caption
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153248
    + excellent mockup in bug 148597 comment 20
    + seems to be powerful, and makes it more consistent (John)
    + useful for power users (John)
    => interesting GSoC project
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