Design/Meetings/2017-02-16

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    Minutes

    Feb 16, 2017; 6:13am Heiko Tietze-2
    Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2017-Feb-16
    Present: Thibaut, Jay, Heiko, Tomaz
    
    Welcome back to the design team, Thibaut!
    
    Organization
    
     * Release plan for 5.4?
       + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/5.4 still missing
    
     * Sidebar Guidelines
       + Design Session: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oKabPLLVe9s53i475W1-v0QA7cxc_0oT0qfVr68KWjM/edit?usp=sharing
       + Blog post: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_JdBb6g1pxixXWqhSXXA06dnRdYkGk4AapuOE1JaZDM
       + fix issue with tab from last control to content panel title (should go to hamburger)
       + skim through it once again (Jay)
       + publish tomorrow
    
     * Have a special UX hackfest/meeting?
       + idea from Arnaud acknowledged by TDF
       + who would attend? (Jay)
         + me *g* (Heiko)
    
     * Use Git for guidelines?
       + pro: managed review process (Heiko)
       + allows linking with dev repo and to have a comparision of code state with guideline state (Thibaut)
       + formatting needs to be considered (Thibaut), maybe use a "markdown" tool, e.g. http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/
       + Similar solution is being considered at KDE as well (Heiko)
    
    GSoC projects
    (see also https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas)
    
     * Ideas are collected under http://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/UX-GSoC_Ideas
       + Added: 21 Revamp the Customization dialog, 22 Multi-color gradient
       + Found mentors for some projects but still room for more
    
    Tickets
    
     * Add donate link to the help menu
       + help increase the access number significantly
       + suggestion by tdf team to do the same for donations
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105831
       + idea was discussed during the rework on the help menu (Jay)
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96015
       + no one voted against this solution so do it (Heiko)
    
     * Modify table styles
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101648
       + Backport to 5.3 (Xisco)
       + solved by hiding the menu items
       + will add a task to GSoC projects (Heiko)
    
     * Restore Clear Direct Formatting
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102915
       + Cor will handle this (Jay)
       + Idea is to have the standard paragraph and character styles in a submenu
         along with edit styles and clear direct formatting (Jay)
       + would be the same as in the main menu
       + should be improved to user-defined styles or styles used in the document (Heiko)
    
     * Gridline/Helpline gate
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105560
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105326
       + issue is that it's not clear where settings are stored, per account, session, or document (Heiko)
       + proposal is to make Tools > Options settings always account related, and to have
         menu setting should change the property per session or document (Heiko)
       + today we have various settings in the View menu for instance that are permanent,
         which would be needed to be non-permanent or link to the Tools>Options dialog (Thibaut)
       + alternatively have a clear separation of account vs. document/session related settings
         in the options dialog (Jay)
         https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105751
       + View menu is rather a shortcut to Tools>Options and almost all functions are permanent (Jay)
       + while this usability issue is clear, that's how most other programs work (Thibaut)