Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-May-22

[Heiko Tietze]

Present:  Eyal, Sahil, John, Heiko
Comments: Aron, Jan

Tickets/Topics

  * When you select part of a column with merged cells, all columns that
    are part of the merged cell are selected
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158288
    + NAB (Aron),
    + selection should denote/depict the merged cells (Eyal) vs.
      selection starts on top-left to bottom-right
    + we are Excel compatible, and actually even better (Heiko)
    + is a range-selection (not to confuse with multiple cells) meant to
      include all from x1 to y2; if so the behavior is correct
    + merged cells take actually the content from the top-left cell
    + copying of multi-selections is not possible
    + unclear use case, potentially impacting the workflow of many
      users (John)
    => comment with needinfo

  * Want MS-Word like auto-formatting of beginning of list item
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158874
    + cool stuff (John)
    + could it be done via extension (Sahil)
    => do it

  * Form creating is too niche to merit a main menu item visible by default
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161031
    + rarely used; conditional logic tricky to maintain and test (Jan)
    + was done to align with other modules, IIRC (Heiko)
    + changing the main menu is a PITA for users, showing conditionally like
      "View > [ ] Show Forms Menu" and also "[ ] Show Shapes Menu" is possible
       but would be quite uncommon; = NAB/WF (Heiko)
    + no strong opinion (John, Sahil)
    => resolve WF to safe users from the annoyance of changing menus

  * FORMCONTROLS: Add ability to Find and Replace field names
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160938
    + intention is to (batch) rename fields, which is not needed (Heiko)
    + finding controls might make sense for a huge number of items, which
      is not so likely; and the Navigator lists the content nicely plus
      will have different sort methods (Heiko, John)
    + being an ODF editor requires a place to find everything which
      is defined (Eyal)
    + F&R with RegEx works well and might be handy for object names in
      some cases (Eyal)
    => both points are valid, keep ticket
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