Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Sep-13

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: John, Eyal, Heiko
Comments: Dieter, Stephane, Mike

Tickets/Topics

  * Separate Default Page Size from Language Locale
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149478
    + add an option to set the default page size (John, Eyal)
    + Consider placing the option elsewhere than Languages Settings
      | Language, as that is not intuitive & difficult to discover (Eyal)
    + templates are pretty easy to do and users should learn this (Dieter)
    => do it

  * UX review needed for Options - Writer - Compatibility dialog
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157006
    + hide single GUI option (John, Heiko)
    + reorganize the other, ie. OpenOffice 1.1 together
      + perhaps combining all those options makes it easier (John)
    + rename, ie. use verbs at the beginning
    + shorten text if possible, ie. "Tolerate..." without " for
      compatibility..." (needs to be considered individually)
    + Perhaps consider having a drop-down list box for setting
      the selection to correspond to specific apps: OOo 1.1, some
      version(s) of MS Word etc. (Eyal)
    + Planning to comment on specifics in more detail on the bug page
      (Eyal)
    => easyhack

  * Tabs in Ruler not showing correctly
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157081
    + Windows show no automatic tab stop at all (only manual)
    + change design of default tab stop indicator and  (John)
    + use left/right pointing angle for LTR/RTL (Stephane)
    => do it

  * Inconsistent table row selection
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155670
    + nothing "surprising" in the selection, LibreOffice is
      doing well (Heiko)
    + LO behavior on is surprising, frustrates expectations and
      inconsistent (e.g. third-line-level vs first-line-level) (Eyal)
    + unclear use case /issue (John)
      + compatibility might be relevant (John)
      + don't think we need to make the same mistakes (Heiko)
      + Disagree, issue is very clear (Eyal)
    + Will try to make a video to better clarify the frustration (Eyal)
    => prolly NAB

  * Incentivize users to use the latest version via the UI
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153153
    + prompt would be intrusive, static text in About dialog okay (Mike)
    + Windows has the (auto-)updater informing about new versions,
      Linux distributions prefer own update procedures, no need
      for more "incentives" (Heiko)
    + About dialog is not an incentive per se (Eyal)
    + rather invest in better update mechanism and "intrusive prompt"
      when new major updates are available (Eyal)
    + show an infobar on major version "Version is no longer supported"
      along with buttons "Update", "Show again", Don't bother again"
      (Eyal, John)
    => comment
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