Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Feb-14

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: Sahil, Rafael, Hossein, Heiko
Comments: Stuart, Jean-Francois, Eyal, Stephané, Ady

Tickets/Topics

  * Freeze Zoom as a global LibreOffice preference
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159156
    + assigning <Ctrl>+0 to .uno:Zoom100Percent as fixed shortcut (Stuart)
    + though must not touch Ctrl+0 in Writer (Jean-Francois)
    + ignore zoom-in/-out via keyboard or lock zoom (Eyal)
    + could be an option "[ ] No zoom per touch pad" (Rafael)
    => add the option (perhaps macOS only)

  * Comment commands in Calc's menus need to be rearranged
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158653
    + split of comment-related commands is not ideal (Stephané)
      + yet done intentionally for bug 91820
    + not convinced that changing the menus is the best path forward,
      it's basically grouping by action vs object (Ady)
    + other applications go with action-focused menus too (Hossein)
    + no better place for comments than under Sheet (Heiko)
    + when coming from the Notebookbar it feels wrong (Rafael)
    => resolve NAB/WF

  * Dialog Properties bigger then screen
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159409
    + not confirmed, dialog is ~637px in height on win (Stuart)
    + but there is a duplicate report; and report is from gtk3
    + reduce the number of lines for the comments textbox (Hossein)
    + turning the wall of inputs into two columns (Rafael)
      + has the challenge to cover long labels (Heiko)
    + long term solution: add some mechanism to VCL/weld that restricts
      oversized dialogs and automatically adds scrolling (Hossein)
   => do it

  * Page direction not the same as sheet direction
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158601
    + recent bug reports have proven that users do not agree (Ady)
    + if the request is to bind the UI-only setting Sheet > RTL to
      Page Style > Text Direction (the superordinate setting of
      the text direction in cells) the recommendation is to rather
      not do
    + Excel knows a "context" option for the cell direction meaning
      if the entered text is RTL the cell becomes RTL (Hossein)
    + The context option will handle the use case automatically, and
      also handles the situation with bilingual cells (Hossein)
    + problem accepted, solution rejected = WF
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