Design/Meetings/2017-01-26

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    Minutes

    Jan 26, 2017; 7:19am Heiko Tietze-2
    Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2017-Jan-26
    
    Present: kendy, jay, steve, heiko, tomaz
    
    Tickets
    
     * Remove snap-to-grid setting in favor of menu options
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105326
       + Remove from options?
       + One per document the other in general? (kendy)
           + But if they are both the same, no objection (Kendy)
       + Menu access was added recently; no need to remove the feature from tools > options (Jay)
    
    Tasks
    
     * Talked shortly about a11y guideline; still WIP
    
    GSoC Ideas
    (see also https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas)
    
     * Unit conversion + variable, high precision input
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72662
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44267
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105176
       + task may be too small for gsoc (Jay)
    
     * Improvements to Notebookbar
       + issues in current implementation
       + WYSIWYG configuration (replaces https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Rework_of_the_Tools_-.3E_Customization..._dialog )
       + include sidebar
          + not sure that sidebar improvements relates to notebookbar (Jay)
       + Custom xml format for Notebookbar (Samuel)
         + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Notebookbar
         + Agree (Jay)
    
     * Improvements to Sidebar
       + preview for tables styles
         + this is part of the table styles gsoc and not sidebar (Jay)
       + preview for graphic styles
         + more important is cell style previews for Calc (Jay)
       + could be 3 projects (kendy)
       + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Review_of_the_sidebar_.26_its_functionality
       + general improvement to sidebar that has been going on every gsoc (continue susobhan's work from laste year) (Jay)
         https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AOkDSqNfO7Hyj-a-tURyXISeuZRUx1JRE8P30YhnBXo/edit?usp=sharing
    
     * Block diagrams
       + Auto format of (block) diagrams (tdf#99669)
       + SmartArt (tdf#37932, tdf#92902)
          + this is interopability and should be part of a dedicated interopability gsoc project (Jay)
       + would be nice (kendy); we suggest this project for years (tomaz)
       + prototype patch by thorsten available (kendy)
    
     * Callouts
       + see discussion about broken links in https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105187
       + (suggestion to introduce those controls was done last week;
         callouts provide non-interrupting information for the user, e.g. in case of possible issues in the future)
       + interesting, use case not fully clear (kendy)
    
     * Navigator
       + https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2016/07/31/how-the-navigator-may-support-object-handling-in-libreoffice-draw/
       + make sense (tomaz)
       + Bjoern mentioned he wanted to take this on, so maybe he could be a mentor for it (Jay)
    
     * Custom Shapes
       + inbuilt editor
       + better shapes
       + new gallery (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Revamp_the_gallery_tool )
       + thumbs up; interoperability is difficult when it comes to custom shapes (kendy)
    
     * Blurry shadows
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48722
       + very good for gsoc (kendy)
       + made something in the past which could be used (tomaz)
       + most wanted #1/2 (heiko)
       + important for svg (Jay)
    
     * Brushes
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90045
       + could also solve https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66587
       + would be cool to have (kendy)
           + but very hard to implement... (Kendy)
       + most wanted #2/2 (heiko)
       + dont sure i see what is hoped to be acheived (Jay)
    
     * Dialog improvements
       + meta - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102019
       + Table of Contents: Entries tab
         + please improve it (tomaz)
       + New dialogs
         + Object Properties - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96355
         + Chart properties - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90687
       + Load Sytle dialog
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102002
    
     * Bibliography dialog
       + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Bibliography_dialog
       + needs mockup but still very relevant (heiko)
    
     * Application Themes
       + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Application_Themes
       + kick out because of notebookbar (heiko)
       + having different layouts/visual layouts would be nice (tomaz)
          + yes, I'd still keep it in the list (Kendy)
       + still important to theme the entire application to have a consistant look across OSes (Jay)
    
     * Document Theme
       + yeah, will support this (tomaz)
    
     * Online Media
       + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Online_Media
    
     * Special characters dialog
       + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Special_characters_dialog
    
     * Revamp print dialog
     * Improve handling of AutoText