Design/Meetings/2023-11-16

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    https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/2023/msg00125.html

    Minutes

    Present: Hossein, Sahil, Heiko
    Comments: Miguel, Regina, Cor
    
    Tickets/Topics
    
     * No hotkey to apply cloned formatting
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156404
       + ticket was set to fixed by removing the customizability for
         the UNO command
       + Clone formatting is a complex interaction with single click to
         apply once and double to apply until escaped; this complexity
         cannot put into a command (but could be done in a simple way)
       + we do have Repeat (shift+ctrl+Y), which applies the formatting,
         if this was the last operation, to the current selection (Heiko)
       + no strong opinion, suggest to be compatible with other
         programs (Hossein)
       + in fact MSO allows to copy per ctrl+shift+C and paste from this
         buffer at any time later per ctrl+shift+V
       => introduce the UNO command
    
     * Setting language for Selection/Paragraph/All text can't be shortcut
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157648
       + it's a bug, if pasting w/o format does not work (Cor)
       + possible solution is to define a character style with the preferred
         language, use tools > customize > keyboard: styles > character styles
         to assign a shortcut to this style (ideally you do this in a
         template); select text and apply the style per shortcut then (Hossein)
       => no further shortcut needed, WF
    
     * UI: Resizing of a selection of columns/rows should correspond
       to the mouse position
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157945
       + do not resize (all columns) to the width of the currently
         dragged column but divide the sum by the number of columns
         so the mouse position remains after releasing it (Cor)
       + sounds reasonable to me, rather with a modifier key such as ctrl
         to keep the old behavior too (Heiko)
       + same in Excel and suggest to not break the current behavior (Hossein)
       => do it
    
     * Feature request: Editing, Formatting, UI. Option to add linebreaks
       when merging cells into one
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158034
       + agree to use cr/lf (for rows) and tab (for columns) when merging
         cells (and split later with this information) (Miguel, Cor, Heiko)
       + doubt it can be considered generally (Hossein)
       + undo needs to be considered, tab/linefeed have special meaning
       => comment
    
     * Need a rectangular-brace-pair callout shape
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157879
       + good for an extension; attached to the ticket (Regina)
       + the Gallery > Shapes has some good callout examples (Hossein)
       + adding such shape leads to compatibility issues
       + possible to get square brackets from round (Heiko)
       + but this wont be a callout (Eyal)
       + compatibility bug should be filed (Hossein)
       + having the default shapes from other shapes in LibreOffice
         makes sense (Hossein)
       + adding too many shapes make access difficult and we should
         do it only for absolutely necessary content, WF (Heiko)
       => comment

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