Design/Meetings/2014-11-19

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    Minutes

    Nov 21, 2014; 6:39pm Jan Holesovsky-4 
    Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2014-11-19
    
    * Present: Ahmed, Jay, Heiko, Kendy, Stuart
     
    * Completed Action Items:
        + Kendy: Switch Sifr to be the default icon set on macOS
        + Jay: Check if the toolbar is not too wide after the recent changes
        + Jay: Gallery tooltip reverted
        + Jay: Sync the track changes shortcut with MSO + change the edit
          mode shortcut
        + Jay: Collect problematic .uno: commands in Draw/Impress (where
          slides are called pages and vice versa)
        + Ahmed: Get access to the new Sifr github repo
     
    * Pending Action Items:
     
        + Kendy: Create Easy Hack for images.zip layering (if it does not
          exist yet)
            + And also Easy Hack for downloading additional themes?
        + Kendy: GSoC task (or so) for converting "Manage Changes..." to
          sidebar (instead of non-modal dialog)
        + Kendy: Adjust alignment and spacing in line spacing drop down -
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83076#c11
        + Kendy: Sidebar - hide the decks, but keep the sidebar (only the
          icons) there.
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85935
            + might make sense to do the same thing in Calc - Styles button
              is gone in the toolbar too
        + Samuel: Add Close menu entry in the sidebar's menu that acts like
          View -> Sidebar toggle
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85937
        + Jay: Tweet / G+ / ... about the conference logo need
        + Kendy: Do / find someone / easy-hack-ize automatic opening of the
          Track changes toolbar when we are tracking changes
     
    * UI changes integrated the last week:
     
        + More fixes to Calc toolbar (Jay)
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85594
        + Additional fixes to Impress toolbar and new revamp of Draw (Jay)
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84909
        + Swapping increase and decrease buttons in Sidebar (Jay)
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85776
        + Default to Sifr icon set on macOS (Kendy)
        + Many Sifr icons updated and added (Papamatti, Jay)
        + Improvements in various dialogs (Adolfo)
        + Addition of new and updated tango icons (Alex, Jay)
     
    * Last week's discussions that need a resolution:
     
        + Merge Document being outside of the Track Changes submenu (Jay, Cor)
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85046
            + there was no disagreement in the meeting, but then Cor updated
              the etherpad that he does not agree :-)
            + tried this feature, and actually it is either broken, or
              really bad from UX point of view (Kendy)
                + got the explanation from Jay
                + and seems pretty much misnamed :-) (Jay, Kendy)
            + Sophie agreed with the change in comment 34
            + Cor stated he'd file an official protest and reverted the
              change in another bug report
              https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86252
            + suggestions of other names for the feature (Jay)
                + Merge Other Changes... (Jay)
                + Import Other Changes... ? (Kendy)
            + leaving it for another time, needs more work anyway (Jay)
     
        + Placement of header and footer (Jay)
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86440
            + different places in all Writer / Calc / Impress!
            + suggests under Insert (Jay)
            + or Edit (Cor)
                + but not View
            + one more option: Format (Stuart)
            + competitive analysis: MSO (Word, Excel) has it in 'Insert',
              Calligra in 'Create', Pages don't have that in the menu,
              WordPerfect has it in 'Insert'
                + apparently they have it tight to the creation/insertion
                  functionality
            + would change the behavior a bit (Heiko)
                + yes, functionality is different across apps (Stuart)
            + conclusion: let's be consistent with the other apps out there (Kendy)
    AI          + please move Impress & Calc entries to Insert to be
                  consistent (Jay)
            + overall, using this functionality from the menu is not ideal (all)
                + too confusing - why a submenu? (Heiko)
     
        + 'Character' or 'Font' (Jay)
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86302
            + apparently Word really leads to a dialog that only sets the
              font (Kendy)
            + but here we allow to set more - all the character properties
            + conclusion: Let's leave it as it is
    AI          + close bug 86302 as wontfix (Jay)
     
    * Survey to revamp Calc toolbar (Jay, Heiko)
        + http://user-prompt.com/how-do-you-want-libreoffice-calcs-toolbar-configured/
        + results - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A0-40WnOk4099N3DPiQs36d5Od9Bxuc3cCpIhIb6Qe8/edit?pli=1
            + shows that the biggest area of improvement needs to be of
              style and having predefined ones
            + alignment, font size etc. used quite a lot
            + border color not used at all
            + many people do not know about styles in Calc
                + and people don't use that much
            + suggestion: more prominent setting for styles
            + some buttons can be removed: open gallery for example
            + freeform notes:
                + make the styles more visible
                + do the UX changes in smaller chunks between versions
                + standardization: some features in toolbar, some in sidebar
        + how hard would it be to use the same dropdown as in Writer? (Kendy)
            + better to use the Styles dialog in sidebar (Jay)
            + the key is to have the preview in the Sidebar too (Jay)
               + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=109138
                 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86039
        + we have too few styles in Calc currently (Jay)
    AI      + brainstorm about some nice / more styles for Calc (Ahmed, Jay)
        + would be useful to have more split buttons in the toolbar (Jay)
            + otherwise has hidden things that are not used
        + will publish the blog tomorrow after Jay proofreads (Heiko)
     
    * Sifr Icons (Ahmed)
     
        + https://github.com/libodesign/flat-icons - old, locked, reference
          only
        + https://github.com/libodesign/icons
        + script to generate the icons automatically (Kendy)
        + has done some new icons (Ahmed)
            + will push shortly
            + some more coming soon
        + the storage a bit confusing (Jay)
            + be careful about conflicts (Jay)
            + please send me the info again (Ahmed)
              https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/boards/1/topics/35
        + macOS will use the Sifr as the default
            + syncing about what icons need to be done with Matthias (Jay)
     
    * Blog post about the changes in menu & toolbar (Cor)
     
        + with all the (IMHO mostly great) changes in menu & toolbar, I
          would suggest to prepare a nice blog exlaining all, or major
          changes, or ... whatever, just to hand out to our users looking
          around in vain searching for their favorites ;)
          could ask on marketing@ ??
        + including that info in the blogs after surveys (Jay)
        + makes sense to talk about this (Heiko)
        + would be really useful around the release time (Kendy)
            + could even do a video "this leads to a dialog you've never
              opened" funny one :-) (Jay)
     
    * Sidebar Issues (Jay)
     
        + What happened with large icons in sidebar matching large icons in
          toolbar?
            + I remember we discussed it and Kendy said he'd do something
              about it
            + maybe we should have a different drop down in Tools > Options
              to set the size of sidebar icons
    AI  + not sure about the dependencies in the code, check (Kendy)
            + maybe have that as an additional setting? (Jay)
            + better not, too many settings already (Kendy)
     
    * Impress / Draw code share problem (Jay)
        + uno commands have been found and listed -
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84258#c2
          this fixes the toolbars and menus
            + Easy-hackize this (Kendy)
        + additional work is needed for the context menus
          Impress: Context Menu > Slide > Page Setup
          Draw: Context Menu > Page > Slide Design
     
    * Would TDF consider hiring a company to do an icon set (Jay)
     
        + It is a question that i've been thinking of and a survey commenter
          also suggested the same
          http://user-prompt.com/how-do-you-want-libreoffice-calcs-toolbar-configured/#comments (last comment by GT)
            + office icon sets that can be purchased
              http://www.top4download.com/office-style-icon-set/bjrststh.html
              http://www.perfect-icons.com/stock-icons/perfect-office-icons.htm
        + I'm not in the Board - better ask them (Kendy)
            + but guess it is hard to get somebody employed or hired to do
              icons only (Kendy)
            + the preferred way is to enable people to do things, not to buy
              a solution (Kendy)
        + then again - I believe a Design hackfest, or some design-related
          h/w (wacom pen tablet or so) for people already doing great things
          (enabling them to do more/better) might be possible (Kendy)
     
    * Buttons with toggle issues (Jay)
     
        + Decimal and Standard Number Format buttons in Calc
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86119
        + Zoom Mode button in Impress/Draw -
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83572
        + syncing with Maxim already (Jay)
     
    * Context menu access to styles (Jay)
    
        + adding paragraph applied and custom paragraph styles to context
          menu
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85940
        + seems that we have multiple things to improve around styles (Kendy)
            + GSoC task to improve usability & accessibility of styles (Kendy)
            + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/GenialIdeas
    AI      + add a Styles usability improvements section + list the various
              things to implement (Jay)
                + styles previews in the sidebar etc.
    
    * Easy access to line thickness options (Jay)
    
         + have simple preset drop down fields rather than manditory value
           fields (similar to sidebar)
           https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48622
           https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=59895 (page 5 and 6)
        + the thickness has a preview (Kendy)
        + adding an additional listbox would clutter the dialog even more (Kendy)
            + possibility to add it as a text that changes accordingly
        + not sure how to make this an actionable task...
            + GSoC task maybe? - this cannot be made easier just by an Easy
              Hack :-(
            + would be necessary to collect the requirements + various uses
              of this
    AI          + talk to Milos (Kendy)