Design/Meetings/2024-07-31

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    Minutes

    Present:  Sahil, Eyal, Heiko
    Comments: Mike, Justin, Stephane, Stuart, Cor
    
    Tickets/Topics
    
    (Suggested bump-up (Eyal):
      * Cell selecting fat border looks ugly especially if you selected some
        cell range, it also can block content in other cells
        https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161709
        + Rafael: Made commits to improve the cosmetic situation, consider
          the bug fixed.
        + Rafael: This was done to resolve 143733, which requested the
          rectangle not cover the active cell
        + Heiko: Suggest accepting the current situation for now
        + Eyal: Serious degradation of UX - text in surrounding cells
          partially hidden, can make one value appear as another due
          to hiding.
        + Eyal: Suggest back-out of changes to before 143733, for now, and
          reconsideration. Must fix this for 24.8 release.
        + Eyal, Mihai, Rafael, Roman, flm2: Excel active cell rectangle looks
          nice
    => please discuss at Bugzilla or the mailinglists (Heiko)
    )
    
      * No option to automatically indent multiline list entries to align
        with numbering followed by space
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156071
        + line up *subsequent lines* of each list entry, see c12
        + no good example for the necessity (Mike, Cor, Heiko)
        + mandatory to have this as cross-platform feature (Justin, Cor)
        + A tab is, in the general sense, an inherently flawed solution,
          because once your number exceeds the tab width - you'll overflow
          and the alignment will be messed up (Eyal)
        + Request is reasonable (Eyal):
          + Follows a different aesthetic principle: Fixed amount of space
            between number and paragraph content v-start rather than uniform
            content v-start across all paragraphs
          + Should be implemented via a paragraph feature to move all lines
            further in to respect the maximum constraints on each individual
            line (e.g. numbering, wrapping around frames etc.), ensuring
            that the paragraph's v-start is uniform across all lines, without
            having to set it explicitly using indentation and/or tabs.
          + Should be usable even without numbering being active (an aspect
            of a paragraph's style)
        + requires probably also to start a list from any number (Heiko)
        + MSO does exactly the same as we do (Heiko)
        => comment
    
      * Tab stop of list contents increases then decreases in default
        Roman numeral list, looking messy
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162133
        + Microsoft Office forces right alignment for Roman numerals, often
          with horrible results (Justin)
        + right-alignment is not the right solution => WF (Stephane, Cor)
      => solution follows bug 156071
    
     * PIVOTTABLE: Formating Pivot Tables
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51732
       + double-click brings up the Data Field dialog currently, add
         a context menu (Stephane. Cor)
       + perhaps more obvious via push button? (Sahil)
       => provide a context menu for the functions
    
     * Magnifier Tool for a quick overview and spot zoom into a document
       in Multiple-page view
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162101
       + magnifier is always just a click away, eg. Win + +/- on KDE
       + bug it does not render again with a higher resolution (Heiko)
       + "magnifier" would be an excellent feature *in general* (Stuart, Cor)
       + necessary if the app DPI differs from the screen DPI (Csongor)
       + duplicates / relates to bug 101646 "UI option "Scaling" was removed"
         with a lot duplicates itself
       + weird relation to multi-page view; suggest to do with low
         priority (Eyal)
       => comment