Design/Meetings/2016-06-10

Link
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Minutes-of-the-Design-Hangout-2016-Jun-10-tc4185830.html

Minutes
Jun 10, 2016; 9:12am Heiko Tietze-2 Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2016-Jun-10 Present: + Heiko, Akshay, Susobhan, Jay, Samuel, Kendy, Bubli, Cor (partly)

Easy hacks that need code pointers + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59570 (scrollbar into slider at draw export dialogs)

Google Summer of Code * Template Manager (Akshay) + How to edit a template without the Template Manager? + see https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61396 (discussing different solutions by the way) + follow suggestion from comment #18 with another menu entry "Open for Editing..." (Heiko) + con: the same file dialog shows up without indication what will happen + have an infobar when a template is opened (Jay) + con: would be annoying when always shown + add a checkbox to the open dialog "Open as Template" (Samuel) + con: adds complexity to the simple file dialog (shown only when ott is selected) + Just edit the template when it is opened from the file dialog (Jay) + con: in other workflow users want to create a document based on this template (as it is right now) + Allow editing only from template manager (Akshay) + con: there might be people who don't use the tamplate manager -> have a dedicated file dialog for template as suggested by Cor in the bug

* Progress of Area Fill project (Rishabh) + Progress for solid colors (names edit field removed) + Color picker in sidebar/toolbar has some issues that need to be fixed first + Continuing work on pattern section + Replanning the work (e.g. multistop gradient is out-of-scope) + Rishabh will prepare a blog post about what has been done and what will follow, plus which impediments he faced

* Progress of Sidebar Improvements (Susobhan) + Header and Footer panel patch up on gerrit - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/25781/ + Styles Panel patch almost finished, draft up on gerrit - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/26020/ + Enabled Page Background Panel for Draw (from Impress) and reorganized Properties panel for impress - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/26159/ + Working to remove Margin Panel and presets to be moved into Format Panel (as per bug report)

Discussion + Writer menu (Cor) + Trouble with late Writer menu changes + see https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91781#c103 + Consistency over modules/apps is a goal, meaning Chart... cannot be moved (Jay) + HIG defines a max. of 20 items on root which are exceeded right now (Jay) + Votes for changing back: Pro: 1, Con: 2, Don't care/Undecided: 4 + But let's ask the community (Heiko) + https://plus.google.com/107566594492891737454/posts/FA4RgWeUDmT

Enhancements and proposals * Automatic creation of screenshots (bubli) http://picpaste.com/screenshot2-MXBWBA1U.png http://picpaste.com/screenshot1-IhK3p0jP.png + icon will become a real button with text (shown only when in some special mode)