Design/Meetings/2018-08-01

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    Link

    https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/msg08769.html

    Minutes

    Present: Stuart, Nickson, Heiko
    
    Tickets
    
    * Manual Column Breaks
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118548
    + WFM / colorize break symbol on type (Heiko)
    + color must not be the primary and only way of feedback (Stuart)
    + we have indicators for page and column break (dashed line)
    + suppressing of unusual workflows (disable the column break in one-col pages) is bad
    => current status is okay, WFM
    
    * Clear styles
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118969 (all)
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118979 (character style)
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118980 (list style)
    + besides or additionally to 'clear direct formatting' users may look for 'clear styles'
    + for lists we have ctrl+shift+f12 to remove the style / turn off numbering; congruent to f12
    + problems will occur with nested styles and when a character style is combined with direct formatting
    + users have to take care of putting DF on top of character styles; it's not the supposed workflow
    + we could think about disabling DF when a character style is set (Stuart)
    => there are more side effects and negative consequences than benefits = WF/WFM
    => about list style, we should add access to clear list style to the formatting toolbar
    
    * Styles & Formatting deck is overpopulated with styles
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69551 (and tdf#118664)
    + bad generic statement, disagree with the idea of "too many" styles
    + what is a "good number of styles"?, what should to be dropped exactly? (Heiko)
    + we have several options to filter/sort styles (Stuart)
    => postponed
    
    * Introduce more text box styles in Draw/Impress
    * https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94369
    + what exactly (these styles are hard-coded)
    => postponed