Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-May-30

[Heiko Tietze]

Present:  Hossein, Sahil, Heiko
Comments: Michael, Stuart, Eyal, Stephane

Tickets/Topics

  * UNO Sidebar 'Hide' and 'Show' sidebar deck (splitwin) --
    a new function (available for assigning a shortcut key to it)
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161037
    + switch/toggle tab with alt+<num> combinations (Michael)
    + provide a keyboard toggle for the splitwin to collapse (Stuart)
    + ctrl+f5 closes the sidebar, the close button (x) closes,
      the special sidebar button minimizes it
    + overly complex interaction, suggest to not change it (Heiko)
    + interaction is ambiguous, when the window width is smaller than
      the sidebar width, the sidebar disappears (Hossein, Sahil)
    => resolve NAB/WF

  * Special Find&Replace presets with regular expression
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161029
    + sounds good but with limited features (Stuart)
    + good for an extension (Eyal)
      + https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/70066
    + no room for presets, dropdown fills with previous searches (Heiko)
    + regex is complex and a few presets wont help (Hossein)
    + MS Word has a special dropdown to search for a couple of most
      often used special characters such as page break or soft hyphen
    => examples are rather suited for documentation

  * Provide framework to suppress editing with direct formatting of
    a styled document, or template
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153309
    + must not force people into styles, WF (Dieter)
    + Tools > Protect > [x] Allow Direct Formatting (Heiko)
    + rather per-document/template method (Stuart)
    + however, we provide all means to hide DF interactions
      and disable it globally might feel broken (Heiko)
    + it's possible with MSO (Hossein)
    => go for it

  * Print dialog: Put initial focus to "Printer" combobox
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161082
    + change the dialog landing to the "Printer" (Stuart)
    + keep at copies as this is more frequently changed (Heiko)
    + similar to MSO, move "number of copies" to the top (Hossein)
    + switching to the number of copies is easy done per alt+n (Heiko)
    => follow a11y

  * Add "Apply" button to all tabs of Table Properties dialog
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160858
    + sidebar/toolbar offer relevant functions (Stephane)
    + immediate feedback from the apply button is important (Sahil)
    + consistency is prime, Apply is available for styles but not
      direct formatting (Hossein)
    + rather remove the Apply buttons than adding to more
      dialogs (Hossein)
    => comment with recommendation to resolve WF
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