Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Mar-21

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: Sahil, Andres, Rhesa, Heiko
Comments: Miguel, Ady, Eyal, Cor, Csongor, Eike, Laszlo

Tickets/Topics

  * Hidden columns should not prevent text from preceding columns from
    overflowing over their cells
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160011
    + potentially breaks current workflow (Miguel)
    + could be done as (compatibility) flag (Ady)
    + afraid of performance issues (Ady)
    + support the request (Eyal, Cor, Sahil)
    + make it the default, and revert optionally (Sahil)
    + might be not so easy to find as compatibility flag but
      clutters the lengthy list of options under view on the
      other hand (Heiko)
    => do it

  * FORMATTING create a means to represent an integer as an IP Address
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148184
    + implement per function (Csongor)
      + solutions are spread over the Internet, 
https://superuser.com/questions/1764387/how-do-i-convert-an-ip-address-to-binary-representation-in-excel
      + https://www.browserling.com/tools/ip-to-dec
    + already have some number formatting types and another one
      would fit well (Eyal)
    + not simply one for all option considering IPv4/v6 (Heiko)
    + has a solution, if needed we should invest in the user-defined
      formatting (Sahil, Heiko)
    => resolve WF

  * AutoCorrect: Many symbol replacements should be defined for [All],
    not language-by-language, and work in [None]
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153979
    + extras/source/autocorr/*/DocumentList.xml entirely controlled
      by the local community (Heiko)
    + [None] means _no language tool processing at all_, [All] should be
      processed in all languages except [None] (Eike)
    + [All] would be useful, but only for a dozen of the replacements, but by
      moving we can lose educating the users (Laszlo)
    + adding a button to show only the items added by the user
      optionally (Laszlo)
    + adding some replacement to the [ALL] category makes it effective for
      paragraphs with language = None but not en_US, for example; apparently
      it's working for empty lists but not if the lang list has some content
    + if [All] items would be effective, users wont see those in their
      language depending list (Heiko)
    + if [All] has the same content as the actual language list it's unclear
      which one is used (eg. [All] --> = -> vs. [Hebrew] --> = <-) (Sahil)
    => remove [All] from the dropdown menu (at this tab), and
       make [None] none (Heiko)

  * personal / custom dictionaries should be easily portable
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157981
    + allow a dictionary to be saved as <filepath>/<filename>.dic (Cor)
    + placing a dictionary (*.dic/aff) in some folder which is added
      via options > path to the dictionary locations does not make
      it available as writing aid; apparently it needs some registration
    + export/import could be a nice task for a macro (Heiko)
    + it's a generic use case for the majority of users and adding this
      to the core makes sense (Sahil)
    + if so, we could add export/import buttons to the options dialog (Heiko)
    => comment
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