Design/Meetings/2016-04-08

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    Minutes

    Apr 14, 2016; 3:05pm Jan Holesovsky-4
    Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2016-04-08
    
    * Present: Heiko, Jay, Kendy
    
    * GSoC
    
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
    
        + https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/
        + if you are a mentor, please touch the [I want to mentor this] button for projects you like
        + even UX people can mentor / co-mentor, big part of the work is non-technical
            + asking about the status, checking the results from the high-level point of view etc.
            + and a developer can help with the code pointers / review of the code
            + worked well the last year [co-mentoring Jay + Bubli] (Jay)
    
    * Draw-related survey (Heiko)
    
        + blog post published - https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2016/04/01/the-many-faced-god-part-1-how-libreoffice-draw-is-being-utilized/
        + a comment suggested a public place where ideas are collected, and voted for
            + ~impossible in a good way (Heiko)
            + easy to say "want Impress like Blender" - easy to say, but impossible amount of work (Heiko)
            + but some good ideas there
                + eg. about connectors, will create a proposal (Heiko)
                + GSoC ideas for the next year would be the best place (Kendy)
                + will go through the bugzilla tickets & sort this better (Heiko)
    
    * Sidebar survey
    
        + first results (Heiko)
            + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/SidebarUsage
            + https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XknvPqz58hYc_NeY2-Ky-L92MkLdYqs7SJCCxC3DX6w/edit?usp=sharing
    
        + finished
        + https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XknvPqz58hYc_NeY2-Ky-L92MkLdYqs7SJCCxC3DX6w/edit#heading=h.rwnqe5haxk5v
    
        + many people reviewed, some open questions
            + as it affects the HIGs, important (Heiko)
            + OTOH - if we change the HIGs, it is not for the eternity, if something needs to be changed
              after it is implemented & tested in real world, we can adapt etc. (Kendy)
            + some disagreement in the HIG update, will talk it through between Heiko / Jay / Stuart
                + mostly around switching context
    
        + conclusion: Remove the controversial parts from the HIG update part, and run a design session for that
    
    * Single Toolbar Mode & Notebookbar (Jay/Samuel)
    
        + notebookbar.ui in Writer was updated
        + some cleanups in SidebarToolBox, to move useful stuff to ToolBox directly (Kendy)
    
        + configurability is important (Heiko)
            + some possibilities there, but hard to do everything in the GSoC timeframe (Kendy)
    
    * Shortcut for Extension Manager (Jay)
    
        + Is Ctrl + Alt + E a good shortcut?
          https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/23376/
    
    * Help content (Jay)
    
        + still no VM from the infra team, would help here (Jay)
    
    * Blog (Heiko)
    
        + spam now removed automatically, thanks! (Kendy)
            + works better for Heiko too - thanks Italo! :-) (Heiko)