Design/Meetings/2016-04-08

Link
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Minutes-of-the-Design-Hangout-2016-04-08-tc4181180.html

Minutes
Apr 14, 2016; 3:05pm Jan Holesovsky-4 Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2016-04-08


 * Present: Heiko, Jay, Kendy


 * GSoC

+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas

+ https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/ + if you are a mentor, please touch the [I want to mentor this] button for projects you like + even UX people can mentor / co-mentor, big part of the work is non-technical + asking about the status, checking the results from the high-level point of view etc.       + and a developer can help with the code pointers / review of the code + worked well the last year [co-mentoring Jay + Bubli] (Jay)


 * Draw-related survey (Heiko)

+ blog post published - https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2016/04/01/the-many-faced-god-part-1-how-libreoffice-draw-is-being-utilized/ + a comment suggested a public place where ideas are collected, and voted for + ~impossible in a good way (Heiko) + easy to say "want Impress like Blender" - easy to say, but impossible amount of work (Heiko) + but some good ideas there + eg. about connectors, will create a proposal (Heiko) + GSoC ideas for the next year would be the best place (Kendy) + will go through the bugzilla tickets & sort this better (Heiko)


 * Sidebar survey

+ first results (Heiko) + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/SidebarUsage + https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XknvPqz58hYc_NeY2-Ky-L92MkLdYqs7SJCCxC3DX6w/edit?usp=sharing

+ finished + https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XknvPqz58hYc_NeY2-Ky-L92MkLdYqs7SJCCxC3DX6w/edit#heading=h.rwnqe5haxk5v

+ many people reviewed, some open questions + as it affects the HIGs, important (Heiko) + OTOH - if we change the HIGs, it is not for the eternity, if something needs to be changed after it is implemented & tested in real world, we can adapt etc. (Kendy) + some disagreement in the HIG update, will talk it through between Heiko / Jay / Stuart + mostly around switching context

+ conclusion: Remove the controversial parts from the HIG update part, and run a design session for that


 * Single Toolbar Mode & Notebookbar (Jay/Samuel)

+ notebookbar.ui in Writer was updated + some cleanups in SidebarToolBox, to move useful stuff to ToolBox directly (Kendy)

+ configurability is important (Heiko) + some possibilities there, but hard to do everything in the GSoC timeframe (Kendy)


 * Shortcut for Extension Manager (Jay)

+ Is Ctrl + Alt + E a good shortcut? https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/23376/


 * Help content (Jay)

+ still no VM from the infra team, would help here (Jay)


 * Blog (Heiko)

+ spam now removed automatically, thanks! (Kendy) + works better for Heiko too - thanks Italo! :-) (Heiko)