Design/Meetings/2024-06-05

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    Minutes

    Present:  Sahil, Rafael, Eyal, Aditya, John, Heiko
    Comments: Eike, Ady, Justin, Cor
    
    Tickets/Topics
    
     * basic HTML cell render
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161223
       + by no means into the formula expression engine (Eike)
       + another formatting layer might be possible (Eike)
       + also not working to concatenate cell content with formatting (Heiko)
       + over-complicate things (Rafael)
       + could be realized per extension (Sahil)
       => WF
    
     * RecalcOptimalRowHeightMode should be effective for CSV imports also
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160983
       + line-breaking characters should not be modified by the
         import process (Ady)
       + request is to make RecalcOptimalRowHeightMode available for every
         import, maybe with a third state that asks on input;
         but still for WF (Justin)
       + makes the import dialog overly complex, WF (Heiko)
       + probably not so rarely needed (Eyal, John)
       + if done as Ask it should not be a dialog (Eyal)
       + RecalcOptimalHeight was recently introduced with yes,no,ask
         and might be sufficient for the user (Rafael)
         + though it's not working as expected
       => NEEDINFO, likely WFM
    
     * UI - dashed outline for active cell border
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161204
       + active cell/range indicator is meanwhile shown outside the cell (Ady)
       + change selection color or line style (eg. dashed with document color)
         depending on cell background on/off (Heiko)
       + clashes with marching ants on copy (Eyal)
       + cells with dashed borders would be another issue (Eyal)
       + Excel does two lines, one with the selection color and another
         in white or the cell background; sounds like a good solution (Rafael)
       + might be ugly as with do draw the focus rectangle only around the
         focused cell and the selection receives a background too; making the
         background smaller would be not so nice
       + merge selection color with the cell and/or document background (Heiko)
       => assign to Rafael
    
     * Support showing combinations of (named) style + direct formatting
       in Stylist
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161251
       + do not overload simple controls (Cor)
       + show only on the flat tree like Applied Styles (Eyal)
       + inspired by MSO's Styles widget which optionally merges all
         information (PS, CF, DF) into the list (Eyal)
       + Styles Inspector does the same (Rafael), Styles Highlighter too (Heiko)
       + reasonable request; feature parity is always good (John)
       + MSO is not a good example for styling documents (Rafael)
       + low impact on usability possible, eg. per additional filter that shows
         applied styles + DF (Heiko)
       => comment