Design/Meetings/2024-01-17

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    Minutes

    Present: Sahil, Cor, Hossein, John, Heiko
    Comments: Eike, Mike, Stephané
    
    Tickets/Topics
    
     * Styles deck: actually hide hidden leaf styles in Hierarchical view
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158791
       + only do the greyed-out thing when the style has children but
         hide the style completely when it’s a leaf
       + alternatively clean-up the styles list
       + some styles are used for wizards, high levels could be hidden,
         but in the end not much benefit (Cor, Heiko)
       + wouldn't hide conditionally (Heiko)
       + users might be not aware of hidden styles (Cor)
       + Stylist has plenty of filters to adjust the view (Heiko)
       + don't make it even more harder to use (Hossein)
       => WF
    
     * Let users select multiple toolbars at once to view or hide
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158880
       + integrate the toolbars list in the "User Interface" dialog (Heiko)
       + View > Toolbars is familiar to most users; advanced prototype
         could be Mozilla's (eg Firefox) edit mode (Hossein)
       + agree if the dialog would be additional to the menu, otherwise
         against (Cor)
       + accelerator keys are a quick way to access the menu items (Cor)
       + integrating into a dialog might be beneficial, a bit unclear
         if toolbars belong to the User Interface dialog (John)
       => copy the toolbar options to the UI dialog
    
     * Conditional Formatting gets overwritten
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158724
       + allow fine-tuning of protection with "[ ] Edit values" and
         "[ ] Format cells" so one can protect the sheet more
         specifically (Heiko)
       + unclear option, difficult to implement; rather add an extra
         function that blocks formatting independently from protection (Eike)
       + another idea: allow customization of paste per document so paste
         behaves like paste special > values only, or else (Heiko)
       + Excel shows a small widget to give a clue on alternative options,
         but behaves like LibreOffice (Hossein)
       + Warn (with option to not show again) if formatting is being
         overwritten (Cor)
       => comment
    
     * "Macros disabled" show a button "Show macros" which does not
        make sense
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158600
        + reasonable for "High"+ security (Mike)
        + keep the ability to quickly take a peek in the macro; and rather add
          some button [Execute anyway] (Heiko)
        + most users don't understand Basic and allowing the see/edit lowers the
          security (Hossein)
        + keep the Show Macro button, ie. WF (Cor)
        + not a big deal to have a shortcut to see/edit the button (John)
        + users may miss an action if the infobar does not provide
          any button (Hossein)
        => comment, in favor of WF
    
     * text file format dialogue on save -- ODF file format?
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158624
       + some benefit in using the term that users will be more familiar with,
         eg "Save as ODF" for Writer or "Save as ODS" for Calc (Stephané)
       + all are ODF anyway and most users are not familiar with
         file extensions either (Heiko)
       + change sounds good to me (John, Hossein, Sahil)
       + might have been changed a while again, will check (Hossein)
       + could be better to add the extension in the text like "This document
         may ... file format “Rich Text (*.rtf)”. Use the default ODF file format
         (*.odt) to be sure that the document is saved correctly."; with *.odt/
         *.ods/*.odp etc. depending on the module (Hossein)
       => ask dev mentor to make it an easyhack