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https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/2025/msg00032.html
Minutes
Present: Eyal, John, Heiko
Comments: Stuart, Ilmari, Regina, Samuel
Tickets/Topics
* Consider using vertical tabs for any GTK dialog with more than 6 tabs
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165814
+ VT is more comfortable than the shifting with HT; moving more of
the dialog layouts, but incrementally (Stuart)
+ VT could provide a nice design touch but have some blockers for now
+ bug 163008 - Vertical tabs ignore layout for icons
+ Bug 165474 - Vertical Style editing dialogs--no tabs should be
out-of-view
+ Bug 161491 - Paragraph preview image is cut with VCLs gen, qt, win
+ Bug 161492 - Vertical Tab dialogs--Options column in Area section
is not wide enough in paragraph style dialog
+ vertical tabs are not "ready" and "anti-usability" interface;
suggest to switch back to horizontal tabs on _all_ dialogs (Eyal)
+ create tickets for every single dialog (Samuel)
=> keep ticket for later
* Cursor is not moved correctly when using rows with merged cells in
LibreOffice Writer
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165936
+ appear in the middle seems intentional (Ilmari)
+ MSO behavior more reasonable (Regina)
+ Microsoft behavior also effective on Calc; issue should be
fixed (Eyal, John)
=> do so
* Auto-Layout for flowcharts and automatic flowcharts from Calc / Excel
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92902
+ libraries such as GraphViz exist that do the work;
many users would benefit from such function (Eyal)
+ realize per extension (Heiko)
+ request somehow combines data management with Calc and visualization
per Draw, which is a bit weird (John)
=> keep the ticket
* Show the UI selection dialog on first start-up
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137931
+ I want a first-start dialog (Eyal, John)
=> will look into it (Heiko)