Design/Meetings/2020-09-24

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    Link

    https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/2020/msg00114.html

    Minutes

    Present: Sascha, Rohan, Rivan, Heiko
    Comments: Regina, Telesto, Maxim, Thomas, Maxim
    
    Tickets/Topic
    
     * ENHANCEMENT UI: Synchronize checkbox for page margins
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136055
       + not needed (Regina),
       + another use case is to decrease the margin to zero to get the max out of
         the page (Telesto)
       + also good for consistency (Sascha)
       => let's do it
    
     * Comment reply function has disappeared
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136896
       + has been restricted intentionally (Maxim)
       + keep it blocked but disable command rather than hiding and
         provide a (contextual) tooltip; => force users to enter personal
         info (Heiko)
       + block replying to own comments unless no user (aka unknown author) (Thomas)
       + MSO allows replying to own comments (Maxim)
       + not unusual to have identical names like Muhammed, another user with the
         same name couldn't reply
       + keep as it is, there is no good reason to reply to own comments (Sascha)
       + sometimes people work on the same computer and address people in the
         comment like "He Muhammed, please check this"; so do not block (Rohan)
       => comment on the ticket and keep it open
    
     * EDITING: Insert checkbox easily as in Google Sheets
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133417
       + alternative is to use a formula and insert a symbol depending on 1/0
       + like checkboxes; form controls are overly complex (Sascha)
       + cell value would be true/false with the visualization of a checkbox
         including the interaction on click to toggle the state (Sascha)
       + can't be kind of a number format but needs a special implementation
         to visualize boolean per checkbox; this wouldn't be cross-
         platform/application formatting is lost on round-trip
       + interesting to check how GDocs saves this checkbox
       => needsDevEval
    
     * Writer's defaults are not the same as with the Default template
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133723
       + rename the default template (Thomas)
       + maybe "Plain" or "Blank" instead of "Default" (Heiko, Rivan)
         + is not so beneficial and not a solution to the actual problem (Sascha)
       + cannot override or delete Default template, no point in having it at
         all (Sascha)
         + would be nice to be able to override/delete all templates, meaning to
           store in user space (Rivan)
         + IIRC technical reasons prevent this (Heiko)
       + would be good to not initialize variables but always load a template (and
         define defaults there) (Sascha)
       + templates are a blueprint for documents not to store all variables for all
         styles (Heiko)
       => WF
    
     * MENUS: Global shortcuts not appearing in menu entries
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85978
       + vote for CloseWindow but this solves only the example, see
    
    https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sw/source/uibase/docvw/edtwin.cxx?r=1675f5c0#1351
       + File > Close is .uno:CloseDoc and assigning a shortcut would show Ctrl+W
         in this menu
       => let's do it for this command