Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Mar-27

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: Sahil, Antonio, Cor, Bogdan, John, Eyal, Heiko
Comments: Stephane, Stuart, Timur

Tickets/Topics

  * A11Y sidebar: Too many issue reports about direct character formatting
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159906
    + group by paragraph (+ 0.5 Stephane)
      + maybe list per paragraph under one root node (Heiko, Antonio)
    + offer an action button (+1 Stephane, Heiko, -1 Stuart)
    + action is not necessarily to remove DF; could also
      be "Dismiss" (Cor)
    + could be a more complex UI with more interactions, filters, batch
      operations etc. (Sahil, Antonio)
      + could be done in a later patch (Cor)
    => let's go with the extra tree node per paragraph and maybe page too
       and no action button for now

  * Add all 3 Spotlight commands (PS, CS, DF) to Style Inspector
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160194
    + maybe per icon-only toggle button (Stephane)
    + agree with the proposal as it matches the workflow (Stuart)
    + clutters the UI and is not in scope of the workflow (Heiko)
    + it's not uncommon to have those buttons in the UIs (Cor, John)
      + neither a big improvement nor a huge impact on UX (John)
    + customization is sufficient (Antonio)
    => let's do it

  * Use "Delete unused master slides" independently from "Minimize
    Presentation" tool
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159860
    + warn in case of an excessive number of master slides
    + rather fix bug 158773 than alert user on some high number (Heiko)
    + MSO is loading quickly but still warns (Timur)
    + warning could offer to delete unused master slides (Antonio)
    + warning should happen on load; covers also issues with import
      from other applications (Antonio)
    + realize per infobar to not block the workflow (user may click away
      the confirmation box), OTOH depending on severity it should
      interrupt
    + label could be "You have an unreasonable number of unused slide master.
      [Clean Up] [x]" (Heiko)
      + hesitate to delete a lot of content with just a click, so - suggest a
        confirmation dialog when pressing cleanup (Eyal)
      + add a button "Inspect" to the infobar (Cor)
        + strongly disagree with different actions on the infobar (Heiko)
      + add Help button to educate the user (Antonio)
    => do so

  * MRU Recent files list entries numbered, no need to be
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160230
    + number seems to be useless (Bogdan)
    + actual date/time like MSO makes more sense (John)
    + handy for a11y resp. keyboard only access (Stuart,Antonio)
      + Alt+F + U + 1 opens the latest pinned item, for example
      + numbers above 10 take the first character from the filename
    + number indicates the recency (Eyal)
    + mnemonics inside the filename are hard to spot (Cor)
    + alternatively we could go with alphanumeric characters A..Z (Sahil)
      + this would require using different alphabeta in different localized
        UIs (Eyal)
    => no good argument to remove the numbers -> WF
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