Design/Meetings/2015-12-04

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    Minutes

    Dec 18, 2015; 6:15am, Jan Holesovsky-4 
    Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2015-12-04
    
    * Present: Heiko, Kendy, Michel, Samuel, Stuart, Tomaž
     
    * UI changes integrated the last week:
    
        + Controller to show toolbar content as menu (Maxim)
        + Edit points toolbar (Jay)
        + Save Remote only when available (Maxim)
        + Transition icons for Impress (Andreas)
    
    * Suggestions from Roland (Samuel)
    
        + http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/libre-office-vs-numbers-td4167428.html
    
        + mostly general ideas (Samuel)
        + might be good to point Roland to the .ui files, so that he can do improvements etc. (Kendy)
            + will mail him & point to the calc sidebar .ui files, so that he can play with that (Samuel)
    
    * Area Tab design session (Heiko/Jay)
    
        + Area Tab - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94551
          https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gf7wqYszXnbrbzbyNlLKbJelMb20ssuimxfszcHP_wM/edit?usp=sharing
            + not published yet
    
        + draft finished, but Jay not that happy with the content (Heiko)
            + what to do to unblock? :-)
            + we should share it at least in the current state, to get feedback, and be able to iterate (Heiko)
            + unfortunately cannot see Jay recently (Kendy)
    
        + let's wait with the Area Tab blog post for now, Jay had some concerns (Kendy)
            + let's publish the Table Style blog post now instead (Kendy)
    
    * Evaluation of what the users need (Michel)
    
        + what use cases are we targeting (Michel)
            + we have personas in the HIG (Kendy)
        + would be good to prototype + test (Michel)
            + prefer doing the LibreOffice code directly - so that it is exactly what can be done (Kendy)
            + but if you know of a tool that can do it more easily, please do tell us (Kendy)
    
        + in the case of the Area Tab, it is only about re-arranging the existing dialog (Heiko)
            + not necessary to have user stories there, but useful for new designs (Heiko)
            + interesting to have user stories even when re-designing (Michel)
    
    * Bug discussions
    
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&component=ux-advise&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
     
        + discussed, and acted on:
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84953
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85383
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81519
    
    * NotebookBar (ToolSpace?) (Samuel)
    
        + https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pt1Psa4YDVwFOdYlLl6TXaK5LIK2uf1RKJk1UOTLsWg
    
        + current focus: loading the toolbars from glade (.ui) instead of .xcu files
    
        + keep in mind the HIG (Heiko)
            + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/ToolBar
            + mentions some future enhancements of toolbars that might be helpful here (Heiko)
                + eg. grouping
                    + possible with Notebookbar
                    + eg. http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/4.0.7/#!/example/toolbar/toolbars.html ?
    
        + Will have  a friday session on NotebookBar topic on Fr 04th of Dec
            + Please have a look at the following links until then: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/NotebookBar#Resources
    
        + the patch was reverted in master, will re-introduce that (Kendy)
            + considering a rename to 'ToolSpace' when at that; let's see (Kendy)
            + current plan: do more technical ground work there, so that the rest is up to
              concrete design of .ui files via glade (Kendy)
            + then many paths are possible, eg:
                + https://smehrbrodt.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/improving-the-toolbars-in-libreoffice/
                + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/NotebookBar
                + but we want this to be an "implementation detail" - whatever is in .ui files (Kendy)
    
    * Icon Updates / Issues (Jay)
    
        + Andreas provided the icons for transitions
            + many thanks! :-) (Kendy)
    
        + Paulo proposed new mimetype icons (Heiko)
            + nice stuff (Stuart)
            + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/7/7d/Pj-icons-2015-11-6-v2-default-dark.png
              https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/e/eb/Pj-icons-2015-11-6-v2-high-contrast-dark.png
            + looks good, positive feedback on the ML (Kendy)
            + could have a better contrast for the Draw icon (Heiko)
            + up to Andreas + Jay to merge if it fits their plan (Kendy)