Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2025-Apr-09

[Heiko Tietze]

Present: Eyal, John, Heiko
Comments: Stuart, Ilmari, Regina, Samuel


Tickets/Topics

  * Consider using vertical tabs for any GTK dialog with more than 6 tabs
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165814
    + VT is more comfortable than the shifting with HT; moving more of
      the dialog layouts, but incrementally (Stuart)
    + VT could provide a nice design touch but have some blockers for now
      + bug 163008 - Vertical tabs ignore layout for icons
      + Bug 165474 - Vertical Style editing dialogs--no tabs should be
                     out-of-view
      + Bug 161491 - Paragraph preview image is cut with VCLs gen, qt, win
      + Bug 161492 - Vertical Tab dialogs--Options column in Area section
                     is not wide enough in paragraph style dialog
    + vertical tabs are not "ready" and "anti-usability" interface;
      suggest to switch back to horizontal tabs on _all_ dialogs (Eyal)
    + create tickets for every single dialog (Samuel)
    => keep ticket for later

  * Cursor is not moved correctly when using rows with merged cells in
    LibreOffice Writer
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165936
    + appear in the middle seems intentional (Ilmari)
    + MSO behavior more reasonable (Regina)
    + Microsoft behavior also effective on Calc; issue should be
      fixed (Eyal, John)
    => do so

  * Auto-Layout for flowcharts and automatic flowcharts from Calc / Excel
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92902
    + libraries such as GraphViz exist that do the work;
      many users would benefit from such function (Eyal)
    + realize per extension (Heiko)
    + request somehow combines data management with Calc and visualization
      per Draw, which is a bit weird (John)
    => keep the ticket

  * Show the UI selection dialog on first start-up
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137931
    + I want a first-start dialog (Eyal, John)
    => will look into it (Heiko)
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