Design/Meetings/2024-03-21

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    https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/2024/msg00027.html

    Minutes

    Present: Sahil, Andres, Rhesa, Heiko
    Comments: Miguel, Ady, Eyal, Cor, Csongor, Eike, Laszlo
    
    Tickets/Topics
    
     * Hidden columns should not prevent text from preceding columns from
       overflowing over their cells
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160011
       + potentially breaks current workflow (Miguel)
       + could be done as (compatibility) flag (Ady)
       + afraid of performance issues (Ady)
       + support the request (Eyal, Cor, Sahil)
       + make it the default, and revert optionally (Sahil)
       + might be not so easy to find as compatibility flag but
         clutters the lengthy list of options under view on the
         other hand (Heiko)
       => do it
    
     * FORMATTING create a means to represent an integer as an IP Address
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148184
       + implement per function (Csongor)
    + solutions are spread over the Internet, https://superuser.com/questions/1764387/how-do-i-convert-an-ip-address-to-binary-representation-in-excel
         + https://www.browserling.com/tools/ip-to-dec
       + already have some number formatting types and another one
         would fit well (Eyal)
       + not simply one for all option considering IPv4/v6 (Heiko)
       + has a solution, if needed we should invest in the user-defined
         formatting (Sahil, Heiko)
       => resolve WF
    
     * AutoCorrect: Many symbol replacements should be defined for [All],
       not language-by-language, and work in [None]
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153979
       + extras/source/autocorr/*/DocumentList.xml entirely controlled
         by the local community (Heiko)
       + [None] means _no language tool processing at all_, [All] should be
         processed in all languages except [None] (Eike)
       + [All] would be useful, but only for a dozen of the replacements, but by
         moving we can lose educating the users (Laszlo)
       + adding a button to show only the items added by the user
         optionally (Laszlo)
       + adding some replacement to the [ALL] category makes it effective for
         paragraphs with language = None but not en_US, for example; apparently
         it's working for empty lists but not if the lang list has some content
       + if [All] items would be effective, users wont see those in their
         language depending list (Heiko)
       + if [All] has the same content as the actual language list it's unclear
         which one is used (eg. [All] --> = -> vs. [Hebrew] --> = <-) (Sahil)
       => remove [All] from the dropdown menu (at this tab), and
          make [None] none (Heiko)
    
     * personal / custom dictionaries should be easily portable
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157981
       + allow a dictionary to be saved as <filepath>/<filename>.dic (Cor)
       + placing a dictionary (*.dic/aff) in some folder which is added
         via options > path to the dictionary locations does not make
         it available as writing aid; apparently it needs some registration
       + export/import could be a nice task for a macro (Heiko)
       + it's a generic use case for the majority of users and adding this
         to the core makes sense (Sahil)
       + if so, we could add export/import buttons to the options dialog (Heiko)
       => comment