Design/Meetings/2014-10-01

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http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Minutes-of-the-Design-Hangout-2014-10-01-tt4124556.html

Minutes
Oct 02, 2014; 4:49am Jan Holesovsky-4 Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2014-10-01

+ none - the first call :-)   + none    + Samuel tests + reads the code        + thanks for your work there! (Kendy)
 * Present: Jay, Kendy, Samuel, Steve
 * Completed Action Items:
 * Pending Action Items:
 * UI changes integrated the last week (Samuel):

+ Firefox themes footer + footer themes did not work initially, but Michael J. fixed that + Alternating lines highlight in the Expert configuration listbox + should that be enabled on more places? possibly even default? + AI Samuel: Will try to switch it on generally; and also check what the other platforms are doing (like, if this way of         highlighting is known/standard there) + Style dropdown: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4#Style_dropdown + beautiful!!! (Kendy) + Changes toolbar: New Icons (Jay) + completed, pushed now + will need a small update - when using a different background (Jay) + will update & push & add to the release notes + Who's going to finish it? + seems some problems there are already fixed + AI Jay: will create bugs for the rest in bugzilla, and ping Krisztian + some of them could be Easy Hack-ized too + Info from admins: Please don't use the Redmine wiki, it is not backed up! + TDF wiki should be the only wiki we use in the project... + AI Kendy: Check the how much info is in the redmine wiki + What advantage does Redmine have? + I like the forums (Jay) + Seems the forums is the ~only supported part of redmine though (Kendy) + Not much information who proposed the redmine initially, need feedback from them (Kendy) + mailing list works for me better - to keep track of what I've read, no idea if it is possible with forums? (Kendy) + Would be useful to have grouped toolbar buttons - Jay will design, Samuel can do some coding + But probably not for 4.4 + Usage of large icons by default on windows (Jay) fdo#82309 + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82309 + We already have that as the default on Linux and macOS + Mentioned the reasons in the bug + Adolfo objected; but no further discussion + small icons made sense when we had 800x600 screens (Jay) + relict of old times? + Support that: small icons on macOS are just too tiny, never used that (Steve) + current approach in the code: if menu font size is bigger than a limit, show large icons + proposed change: when horizontal resolution is larger or equal than 1024 pixels, show large icons + let's try it in master and see if people oppose too much (Kendy) + and revert if yes + concern if we hear about the positive feedback too (Steve) + blog about that, so that people can comment when they like it (Steve) + Usage of large icons in the sidebar + would be useful when there is enough space + layout updates when the icons are bigger (Jay) + should be ~easy to bind it to the toolbar icon size setting, IIRC (Kendy) + AI Kendy: let's make an Easy Hack to conform to the icon size setting, Kendy will provide the code pointers
 * New Color Picker (Samuel)
 * Redmine usage (Kendy)
 * Toolbar group buttons (Samuel / Jay)
 * Large Icons (Jay)

+ Addition of the style drop down to properties pane + Redesign of the properties pane + Creation of a new page properties pane + Integrating table toolbar features into the properties pane + 2 proposals, but who will do the code? + AI Kendy: Will provide Jay with pointers to .ui for the sidebar - so     that he can try it in glade
 * Sidebar Improvements (Jay)

[the rest of the topics deferred to the next week :-)]