Design/Meetings/2016-02-19

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    Minutes

    Feb 19, 2016; 12:02pm Jan Holesovsky-4
    Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2016-02-19
    
    * Present: Heiko, Jan-Marek, Kendy, Samuel, Tomaž
    
    * GSoC is close again
    
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
            + needs to be filed in until the next Tue
            + Heiko will add the ideas there (/done)
                /done Area Fill, Table Styles, AutText, Bibliography
        + we should file in the tasks that are completed from the design point of view
            + Table styles, Customization dialog, Sidebar, ...
            + design session stuff : table of contents dialog, symbol dialog, fill dialog, print dialog
              https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6qJrVIa0SAlcFV0Q2lWMmdUcW8&usp=sharing
                + done
            + redesign template manager
              https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JRPNdeHQpgqiqJv8LW-RHOjtHN8EMX0qK98QBnr10Yg/edit?usp=sharing
              https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ri2jznhcQmCtk3cVygEhwN7pi8FkbIVV_OvRQce_n6Y/edit?usp=sharing
    
        + Jay: add a Styles usability improvements section + list the various things to implement to GSoC-next ideas
            + Ahmed, Jay: Brainstorm about some nice / more styles for Calc
              https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/boards/1/topics/493
              [longer term - maybe better to add to the GSoC Styles task?]
            + Jay: Impress also needs more default object styles (only 2 are available)
    
    * Draw-related survey (Heiko)
    
        + published and continued (will close on Friday, 19 February)
          https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2016/02/07/what-do-you-expect-from-draw/
          http://user-weave.com/survey/b0edf831f89d4d23bb3d6b6ba3e574a9?12
        + Results  
          https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByWdNpQKVjM8bF91TGJCUXlFUk0
    
        + many participants, over 1200 valid answers
        + first feelings: more people want improvements in the visio-like features, much less
          want publisher-like features
            + but many other interesting input too
    
        + Heiko will go deeper into the statistics
            + categorize the answers
            + extract the info...
    
    * Sidebar max width (Jan-Marek)
     
        + The side bar currently has a maximum size limit
            + problem for wollmux exension (Jan-Marek)sw/sdi/swriter.sdi
    
        + in general, let's give freedom to the extension developers (Kendy)
            + we just need to make sure any random extension does not take over the entire LO :-) (Kendy)
    AI:     + put together few screenshots to explain the needs a bit better (Jan-Marek)
            - http://snag.gy/e8550.jpg
            - http://snag.gy/Q6pvY.jpg
            - http://www.wollmux.net/wiki/WollMuxBar#Suchleiste
    
        + fan of the changes, just need to be careful - fixed size has some merit too (Stuart)
        + having a fixed/minimum value by default and allowing a sidebar extension dev to modify this value through api (Jay)
        + https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/awt/XDockableWindow.html
    
        + Sidebar Bug Reports (Stuart)
            The Sidebar Meta - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65138
    
            Sidebar "philosophy" where it needs to go - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33223#c11
    
            a key feature -- multiple & detatchable decks, and support in profile state
            https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67770
            https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85905
    
        + basically now part of the UX team wants to give the flexibility, the other wants fixed size :-)
            + suggested a poll - to get more info what the users are expecting (Heiko)
            + actually cannot exactly make my mind either (Kendy)
                + have some casses that are annoying, but other than that, I'd be for freedom for extensions (Kendy)
            + concerned about moving input to the sidebar (Heiko)
            + let's try to collect useful use cases, and pros and cons for them (Kendy, Heiko)
            https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ts5GlnrOGWcn7_V9naqRF-Ag9EWzFpsF6GwxH_uzzRw/edit?usp=sharing
    
        + would it be actually a big problem when different sidebar panels have different width? (Kendy)
            + added that as a questionto the poll
            + constantly changing side when jumping from one tab to the next isnt good UX (Jay)
    
        + will share the poll on the ML, when the questions are agreed, publish about the next week (Heiko)
    
        + What about changing the sidebar tab programatically (add API)? (Jan-Marek)
            + no objection from me (Kendy)
                + if the extension does things the user do not like, they'll de-install ;-) (Kendy)
    
    * Update Default font
    
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97577
    
        + Would be useful to change the default font in all apps rather than just impress (Jay)
            + Droid Sans, Serif, Mono (used on Android, available in Google Docs, available in ubuntu 12.04 & debian 6-backports)
              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_fonts
            + Noto Sans, Serif, Cousine (droid derivative to fully cover all scripts in unicode, available in ubuntu 14.04 & debian 7)
              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts
            + Caladea, Carlito (bundled with LibO, metric compatible with MS Office default fonts, available in ubuntu 14.04 & debian 7-backports)
    
        + Discussion on the ML: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/New-default-fonts-td4175420.html
    
        + I think using the interoperable fonts makes most sense (Kendy)
            + there was a concern about Carlito on the ML
                + number 6 and 8 are higher
            + and Caladea
                + some Cyrilic and Greek letters are missing
            + maybe we should also double-check the metrics compatibility (Kendy)
            + but this is all fixable - TDF can run a tender for this (Kendy)
    
        + what exactly MSO does when it opens a document using eg. Carlito? (Samuel)
            + probably it's possible to specify fallback (Tomaž)
            + let's investigate...
    
    * An alternative print range selection algorithm, 2. (Jan-Marek)
    
        + Patch has landed in master, needed additional fixup but works now
            - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89708
            - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97505
    
        + still needs evaluate how it works with duplex-printing (Jan-Marek)
            + and if it is fine, switch default to not printing blank pages
    
        + water-sign / indicator with 'automatic blank page' would be nice (Heiko)
    
    * Spam at the blog
    
        + amount of spam dropped, good
    
    * Budget for the 2016 - brainstorming
    
        + Improvements in the Carlito / Caladea / ... fonts
        + Some travels to UX-related event(s)?
            + which ones?
        + Some new templates - competition prizes, or even a tender
        + When the UX metrics solution (now tendered) is implemented, H/W to actually crunch the data
    
        + please if you have other ideas, send feedback to the mailing list
            + deadline: 2nd March, we still can discuss at the next meeting