Design/Meetings/2023-05-24

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    https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/2023/msg00076.html

    Minutes

    Present: John, Hossein, Shu, Heiko
    Comments: Eike, Ady, Bogdan, Rafael, Tomaz, Timur, Roman, Stuart
    
    Tickets/Topics
    
     * Find & Replace: Checkmark "Current selection only" automatically
       unset after repeating "find" (or "find/ replace") despite that area
       is still marked
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141296
       + dialog should remember the option (Eike)
       + after f&r the dialog selection is lost (Ady) and searching
         again makes no sense (Heiko)
       + iterative operations are common (Bogdan)
       + only obvious issue is that replacing items may end in no selection
         and the fact that current selection depends on  whether more than
         one cell is selected (Heiko)
       + remembering the option is desirable (Hossein)
       + MSO has no option to _ignore_ the selection; replacement is always
         applied to the selection if more than one cell is selected (Hossein)
       + makes sense to drop the option (John); option is good (Shu)
       + MSO does not change the current selection on replacement (Heiko)
         + it's kind of a convenience feature to quickly see what has been
           changed (Heiko)
         + could be made dependent on whether a selection was active before the
           replacement (Hossein)
       => comment
    
     * Confusion between "bibliography entry" and "citation"
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155050
       + bibliographical entry is part of the toc - and citation a more
         common term for the functionality (Stuart)
       + alternatively use "reference"? (Heiko)
       + compare with well-known 3rd party tools Mendeley, Zotero,
         Endnote (John, Hossein)
       + Zotero uses "Citation" and Bibliography (John), MSO Word as
         well (Hossein)
       => do rename
    
     * Pasting a table cell, pastes the source cell in the upper/actual
       cell as an inner table cell
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149625
       + different behavior depending on the selection; same behavior
         for MSO Word
       + inserting a table into a table cell is possible too (Heiko)
       + wondering if this has a real use case (John), apparently it is
         as questions on the web indicate (Hossein)
         + Search for "nested tables" in BZ
       => resolve NAB
    
     * Remove empty rows faster in Calc (add in LO instead of extension)
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151133
       + common use case, integration makes sense (Rafael, Tomaz, Timur)
       + does it exit in Excel? (John), unclear (Heiko)
       => do it (for both row and column)
    
     * rename “Modify” button into "Assign"
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155214
       + wouldn't change (Roman)
       + Assign fits better (Stuart, Heiko, John)
       => rename
    
     * Simplified options dialog
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90989
       + simplification means essentially to create new dialogs
         from scratch- with a lot of effort
       + searching for content simplifies the workflow
       + improve rather than start from scratch (Hossein, John)
       + still think it's beneficial (John)
       + MSO does a worse job by some simple tabs and one large
        "Advanced" (Hossein)
       + small-size devices such as handhelds demand a smaller
         options dialog (John)
       => do it