Design/Meetings/2024-03-27

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    Minutes

    Present: Sahil, Antonio, Cor, Bogdan, John, Eyal, Heiko
    Comments: Stephane, Stuart, Timur
    
    Tickets/Topics
    
     * A11Y sidebar: Too many issue reports about direct character formatting
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159906
       + group by paragraph (+ 0.5 Stephane)
         + maybe list per paragraph under one root node (Heiko, Antonio)
       + offer an action button (+1 Stephane, Heiko, -1 Stuart)
       + action is not necessarily to remove DF; could also
         be "Dismiss" (Cor)
       + could be a more complex UI with more interactions, filters, batch
         operations etc. (Sahil, Antonio)
         + could be done in a later patch (Cor)
       => let's go with the extra tree node per paragraph and maybe page too
          and no action button for now
    
     * Add all 3 Spotlight commands (PS, CS, DF) to Style Inspector
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160194
       + maybe per icon-only toggle button (Stephane)
       + agree with the proposal as it matches the workflow (Stuart)
       + clutters the UI and is not in scope of the workflow (Heiko)
       + it's not uncommon to have those buttons in the UIs (Cor, John)
         + neither a big improvement nor a huge impact on UX (John)
       + customization is sufficient (Antonio)
       => let's do it
    
     * Use "Delete unused master slides" independently from "Minimize
       Presentation" tool
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159860
       + warn in case of an excessive number of master slides
       + rather fix bug 158773 than alert user on some high number (Heiko)
       + MSO is loading quickly but still warns (Timur)
       + warning could offer to delete unused master slides (Antonio)
       + warning should happen on load; covers also issues with import
         from other applications (Antonio)
       + realize per infobar to not block the workflow (user may click away
         the confirmation box), OTOH depending on severity it should
         interrupt
       + label could be "You have an unreasonable number of unused slide master.
         [Clean Up] [x]" (Heiko)
         + hesitate to delete a lot of content with just a click, so - suggest a
           confirmation dialog when pressing cleanup (Eyal)
         + add a button "Inspect" to the infobar (Cor)
           + strongly disagree with different actions on the infobar (Heiko)
         + add Help button to educate the user (Antonio)
       => do so
    
     * MRU Recent files list entries numbered, no need to be
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160230
       + number seems to be useless (Bogdan)
       + actual date/time like MSO makes more sense (John)
       + handy for a11y resp. keyboard only access (Stuart,Antonio)
         + Alt+F + U + 1 opens the latest pinned item, for example
         + numbers above 10 take the first character from the filename
       + number indicates the recency (Eyal)
       + mnemonics inside the filename are hard to spot (Cor)
       + alternatively we could go with alphanumeric characters A..Z (Sahil)
         + this would require using different alphabeta in different localized
           UIs (Eyal)
       => no good argument to remove the numbers -> WF