Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2024-Aug-22

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: Sahil, Rafael, Heiko
Comments: Eyal,

Tickets/Topics

  * Add deck with choice of slide layouts to the sidebar
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162420
    + always show master/layout options (Eyal)
    + access together with master slides or remove from sidebar (Heiko)
    + layout is not part of the master (though requested) (Regina)
    + selection of the master-slides in the slide properties pane (Regina)
    + no objection to layout with master but still need to have it
      at slide properties (Cor)
    + Layouts are not that much useful as they are not intelligent;
      precious space would be wasted (Rafael)
    + proposal makes sense; pane could be collapsed to save space (Sahil)
    + character, list, paragraph still visible when in slide context? (Heiko)
      + why show it if not applicable? (Sahil)
      + so what would be different from the current situation (Heiko)
    + should all the slide attributes be available too?
      + makes not too much sense since it's not a per-slide option (Sahil)
      + totally against bloating the sidebar (Heiko)
    + MSO allows to change the layout via context menu but also only if not
      in any other context than the slide
    => WF

  * Ability to assign comments / tracked changes to a different author
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162424
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162423
    + rather avoid changes to or at least clearly indicate authorship (Heiko)
    + reasonable use cases such as name not set (Eyal)
    + documents with comments are not legal binding (Rafael)
    + protecting TC and comments outweighs flexibility and
      convenience (Heiko, Rafael, Sahil)
    + makes sense as extension and should list all comment authors allowing
      to take over one of those
    => do per extension

  * Ability to make multiple adjacent row or column cell merges
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162333
    + use case A1 = first name, B1 = second name => merge to combine (Eyal)
    + simply do =A1 & " " & B1 (Heiko)
    => WF

  * Simplify Address Book Data Source Wizard
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133845
    + not much benefit when all (variable number) intermediate steps
      become added (Heiko)
    + intention was to reuse existing dialogs (Rafael)
    + we should rather aim for a one-click integration and bring back
      TB integration, for example (Heiko)
    + if possible, this should be a standalone tool (Sahil)
    => WF
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