Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Jun-05

[Heiko Tietze]

Present:  Sahil, Rafael, Eyal, Aditya, John, Heiko
Comments: Eike, Ady, Justin, Cor

Tickets/Topics

  * basic HTML cell render
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161223
    + by no means into the formula expression engine (Eike)
    + another formatting layer might be possible (Eike)
    + also not working to concatenate cell content with formatting (Heiko)
    + over-complicate things (Rafael)
    + could be realized per extension (Sahil)
    => WF

  * RecalcOptimalRowHeightMode should be effective for CSV imports also
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160983
    + line-breaking characters should not be modified by the
      import process (Ady)
    + request is to make RecalcOptimalRowHeightMode available for every
      import, maybe with a third state that asks on input;
      but still for WF (Justin)
    + makes the import dialog overly complex, WF (Heiko)
    + probably not so rarely needed (Eyal, John)
    + if done as Ask it should not be a dialog (Eyal)
    + RecalcOptimalHeight was recently introduced with yes,no,ask
      and might be sufficient for the user (Rafael)
      + though it's not working as expected
    => NEEDINFO, likely WFM

  * UI - dashed outline for active cell border
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161204
    + active cell/range indicator is meanwhile shown outside the cell (Ady)
    + change selection color or line style (eg. dashed with document color)
      depending on cell background on/off (Heiko)
    + clashes with marching ants on copy (Eyal)
    + cells with dashed borders would be another issue (Eyal)
    + Excel does two lines, one with the selection color and another
      in white or the cell background; sounds like a good solution (Rafael)
    + might be ugly as with do draw the focus rectangle only around the
      focused cell and the selection receives a background too; making the
      background smaller would be not so nice
    + merge selection color with the cell and/or document background (Heiko)
    => assign to Rafael

  * Support showing combinations of (named) style + direct formatting
    in Stylist
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161251
    + do not overload simple controls (Cor)
    + show only on the flat tree like Applied Styles (Eyal)
    + inspired by MSO's Styles widget which optionally merges all
      information (PS, CF, DF) into the list (Eyal)
    + Styles Inspector does the same (Rafael), Styles Highlighter too (Heiko)
    + reasonable request; feature parity is always good (John)
    + MSO is not a good example for styling documents (Rafael)
    + low impact on usability possible, eg. per additional filter that shows
      applied styles + DF (Heiko)
    => comment
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