Design/Meetings/2016-09-02

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    Minutes

    Sep 03, 2016; 11:46am, Heiko Tietze-2
    
    Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2016-Sep-02
    2016-Sep-02
        + Present: Kendy, Heiko, Jay
    
    Easy hacks and extensions
      - nothing new
    
    Finalization of Google Summer of Code
    
      * Template Manager (Akshay/Samuel)
         + Just a few minor bugs left
         + Workflow is finsihed and will be kept as it was implemented (Jay)
         + Report - https://akkidevblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/21/gsoc-with-libreoffice-work-product/
    
     * Area Fill (Rishabh/Heiko)
        + Finalization needed
           + Merge commits
           + Proper alignment for at least Qt
           + Crash for patterns
        + combined all tabs together patch wasnt merged - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/27866
        + Report - not done; AI: blog post when its finsihed (Heiko)
    
      * Sidebar Improvements (Susobhan)
        + GSoC finished but work is continously ongoing
        + Report - https://susobhang70.github.io/gsoc-report/libreoffice-gsoc-report
    
      * Notebookbar (Szymon, Kendy, Samuel)
        + GSoC finished, work is ongoing
        + Rename? ask also Marketing (AI: talk to Italo at LibOCon)
        + Report - http://eszkadev.blogspot.ae/2016/08/gsoc-2016-final-report.html
        + Testing instructions: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/NotebookBar
         
       * Table Styles (kendy, jakub)
        + GSoC under the hood finsihed; Jakub still working on minor tweaks
        + Good set of table style presets - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101349
        + Report - https://gist.github.com/ubap/55d22ef9b2e00347a2dc58ca4cb8b0ea
        + Define a couple of good presets, Involve community (AI: Write blog post -> Heiko)
    
    Enhancements and proposals
        + Next big topics
          + Draw: Auto format of (block) diagrams
          + UI: Extended Toolbar (aka Notebookbar), e.g. easy customization
          + HIG: Alignment of labels and controls in dialogs
            + UX should go over all dialogs when the stardard has been defined (Jay)
          + much more with lower priority (e.g. bibliography)
          + go over ideas for gsoc 2017 - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#User_Interface
        + Enabling activation of extra large 32px icons (Jay)
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95014
          + All Breeze icons have been done
          + Need dev to do the necessary to enable to option in the options dialog
    
    UX stats
        + needsUXAdvice of 2016-Sep-01: Total 514 (+7), Resolved 7, Created 7
          Base              1
          Calc             14
          Draw             74
          Extensions        1
          filters and storage        1 (+1)
          framework         3
          Impress           9
          LibreOffice     356 (-1)
          Localization      1
          UI               14
          Writer           40 (+7)
        + Find a way to track number for advice provided (Kendy)
        + At best remove the keyword even when the ticket is closed as WFM, or the like