Design/Meetings/2015-06-24

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    Minutes

    Jun 26, 2015; 7:50am Jan Holesovsky-4
    Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2015-06-24
    * Present: Andreas, Heiko, Jay, Kendy, Marek, Mattias
     
    * Completed Action Items:
     
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90790 - fixed (Kendy)
    
    * UI changes integrated the last week:
     
        + New Sifr icons (Matthias)
        + Additional tweaks to the standard, draw and text toolbars (Jay)
        + Breeze icon tweaks and new icons (Andreas)
        + New Galaxy icons (Andreas)
        + Fix cropped buttons in the start center (Kendy)
        + Fix missing Breeze icons in the icons*.zip (Kendy)
        + .ui files improvements (Adolfo)
        + lint-ui.py improvements (Rosemary)
        + Equalize width and height for impress/draw (Caolán)
            + http://caolanm.blogspot.com/2015/06/equalize-widthheight.html
     
    * LibreOffice Conference
     
        + September 23-25, 2015, Aarhus, Denmark
        + http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/call-for-papers/
        + would be great to have you all there :-) - please submit a paper!
     
    * Icon Updates / Issues (Jay)
     
        + LibreLogo icons are not theme-able (Jay)
            + it's an integrated extension, not theme-able from principle :-( (Kendy)
              https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92287
            + would need change in how the extensions can get the icons (Kendy)
     
        + Tango (Alex/Adolfo/Jay)
            + Latest status of updates available here (Jay)
              https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OErlXIDDGM7V1mOGW8oSCLuhqw5fulT1XhkTik1u2UY/edit?usp=sharing
     
        + Sifr (Papamatti/Jay)
            + Latest status of updates available here (Jay)
              https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ZpVaTxg7TAFYhOyQUP3mp-cVtKA1vP5uZAT38t-taA/edit?usp=sharing
            + Papamatti has pushed new icons (Jay)
     
        + Breeze (Andreas/Jay)
            + Latest status of updates available here (Jay)
              https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dpMFgmkQy4BsyRIKH97ZLPTU6NdvXIYk3Yossj6sSQM/edit?usp=sharing
            + Andreas has pushed some changes (Jay)
           
        + Breeze Dark (Andreas)
            + still in Kendy's action items... :-) (Jay)
     
        + Extra-Large (32x32) Icons for large resolutions
            + Status - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mPqD2gGsMkfVCI6ByUd2XYX1NJm26hcGjRVe6gcCSEU/edit?usp=sharing
     
    * Templates Competition (Jay)
     
        + Wiki page setup
          https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Templates_for_LibreOffice_5.0
        + templates competion out, announced last Thursday
            + not much submissions yet
            + will do something by himself in the meantime (Jay)
                + some dark theme + other basic ones (Jay)
     
    * LibreOffice 5.0 splash + start center + about box new theme (Kendy)
     
        + vote is ongoing in the Visual Identity group
            + results will be tomorrow, then finalized for the next RC
        + implementation of the new colors for the start center ongoing (Kendy)
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90452#c45
     
    * UI Guidelines (Heiko)
     
        + https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hSYOFoG6jnj2G0zWDbUYkrGZoj7YCSI9j3onkTZ65bU/edit
     
        + context menus discussed, happy with the results
        + sidebar will be next
     
        + context menu now in the wiki
        + next steps: sidebar, dialogs
     
    * Next Friday's design session (Jay)
     
        + Friday session this week
            + sidebar is next
            + 1:00pm CEST / 11:00 UTC
     
        + List of possible future topics
            + https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XiJauFHrSmM5LsaV0AlglhfUh8D1IxAg8qistP0KAQA/edit?usp=sharing
            + Steve wants the sidebar "configuration menu" icon gone: "it's useless confusing, thus user unfriendly,
              creates frustration and clutters the UI."
              https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91824
     
    * Calc default styles
     
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90937
        + https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bt2Gr0JslOLL86xb-bCl76mji5AhHT_8VI-5Wp5Qyq0/edit?usp=sharing
            + agreed the new default: H217:H238 in the spreadsheet
            + cleaned version: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90937#c5
                + Moggi busy now, for now will add him to the CC: of the bug
     
        + code for the hard-coded styles is here:
            + http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/sc/source/core/data/stlpool.cxx#n275
     
    * Improving the Use of Styles in Writer (Jay)
     
        + https://docs.google.com/document/d/1onHj7GLNs-x9jMJBRsYaRLv_xsN3UJhP13P690L6ci8/edit?usp=sharing
        + many have contributed already, add your thoughts too (Jay)
        + main idea: encourage more people to use styles (Jay)
        + currently too hard to use, make it easier (Jay)
        + lots of missing visual clues missing for the paragraph vs. character style, and then
          it looks like Clear Direct Formatting does not work, etc. (Jay)
        + needs to be improved so that the styles are more used by more people (Jay)
        + everybody welcome to contribute! (Jay)
     
    * Formula bar function wizard button should open the functions pane of sidebar (Jay)
     
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92219
            + a lot of "naysayers"
        + the sidebar could have a button to open the Function Wizard too - for those who need that (Jay)
        + the features in the wizard and the list differ (Heiko)
        + preview seems useful (Heiko)
        + the wizard allows better use of mouse (Mattias)
        + not that good descriptions in the sidebar (Mattias)