Design/Meetings/2016-01-08

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    Minutes

    Jan 19, 2016; 8:35am Jan Holesovsky-4
    Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2016-01-08
    * Present: Heiko, Kendy, Samuel
     
    * UI changes integrated since the last meeting:
     
        + resource menus & readonly improvements (Maxim)
        + new saving behavior + indication (Maxim)
        + "show draw functions" button for Draw & Impress (Gulsah)
    
    + Comments on design blog (Heiko)
     
        + currently go to only one person (Heiko)
        + let's ask admins to setup a mail alias for the main account (Kendy)
     
    + Blog about menu changes (Heiko)
     
        + Reason: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91820
        + to explain what has been done, what are the concepts behind that (Heiko)
            + sounds great (Kendy)
        + ideal if Jay can do that, he did all the heavy lifting...
            + Heiko about to work on a draft, details needed from Jay
     
    + Find&Replace dialog in the sidebar (Heiko)
     
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96394
        + Sidebar as a host for functions? - F&R is not a property like paragraph settings, for instance
     
        + it is possible from the development point of view (Heiko)
            + but do we want that conceptually?
            + another example where this was attempted: change tracking (Heiko)
     
        + conceptually - it is changing the meaning of the sidebar a bit
            + sidebar is not meant as a replacement for dialogs (at least currently) (Heiko)
            + overall, moving some modeless dialogs to sidebar could be a not-that-bad thing (Kendy)
                + can imagine scenarios where it is useful to be able quickly switch between
                  eg. change tracking and search/replace (which would take too much space with just dialogs)
     
        + let's think a bit more about this, and if we agree to this, make this a GSoC project
     
        + many search&replace bugs in the bugzilla, would be good to have them in mind too
          when considering the move to the sidebar (Heiko)
            + design session to mocup it with these in mind, prioritization, etc. needed (Heiko)
            + GSoC not that near, let's do it in some later Friday, after the normal meeting
     
    + Save button behavior (Samuel)
     
        + implemented now
            + thanks so much Maxim!
     
        + not in RC2 yet (Samuel)
            + the only missing bit is the icon (Samuel)
            + Heiko will sync with Andreas if he can have that before the RC2
              (Tuesday evening tagging)
            + Samuel will backport to libreoffice-5-1
                + then 3 reviews needed for the late feature, Kendy to ask ESC on the ML
     
    + Mail merge toolbar (Kendy)
     
        + implementation mostly finished (Kendy)
            + bugfixing before I can merge it to master
     
    * 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
     
        + ~10 comments
        + positive feedback
        + suggestion to remove the pattern editor and to rename some captions
        + one preference for the three-column layout
     
        + next: implement it :-)  probably again good for a GSoC task
     
    * Draw problems (Stuart)
     
        + might be interesting to have a survey about what the users actually use Draw for (Tomaž)
            + Heiko will have a look / think this through
     
    * 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:
            + [nothing today sadly]