Design/Meetings/2021-11-24

Link
https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/2021/msg00112.html

Minutes
Present: Cor, Heiko Comments: Roman, Regina, Stuart, Ilmari, Adolfo, Eike

Tickets/Topics

* Support for working with online CC0 photo gallery source images + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145740 + do as extension or implement in source code? gsoc maybe? + out of scope (Roman) + linking to external sources is often doomed from the beginning (Cor) => moved to extension => created a META ticket for similar ideas tdf#145878

* Create a "Duplicate sheet" option in LO Calc + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145745 + (hidden) workflow per shift/ctrl+click (Regina) + solve by introducing a new function or via static label explaining the functionality (Heiko) + Move is necessary for large databases (Eike) + would introduce uno:DuplicateSheet (Cor) => do it; easyhackable

* Cell reference are highlighted black when putting = into a cell and clicking a different cell + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145812 + convenience feature if one can click another cell to overwrite but at the same time + to continue a formula + MS Excel does behave the same but does not show the selection + complaints are rare, behavior exists forever (Cor) + not showing the selection shouldn't hurt too much (Heiko) + difference to Excel is that we highlight only the last cell while Excel does all (with different color coding) + Excel highlighting is also not straight-forward (Cor) + lot of effort for not much benefit (Heiko) => WF

* "Insert > Object > Bar Code..." menu should be "QR and Barcode..." + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145728 + .uno:InsertQrCode ("Bar Code...") and .uno:EditQrCode "Edit Bar Code..." + Bar code is accepted too acc. Wikipedia (Ilmari) + inconsistency should be solved (Ming) + (Insert) "QR and Barcode..." (Stuart, Adolfo) => do it

* Redesign of Start Center user interface + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145782 + out of scope (Stuart) + do we want the start center to provide file management functionality such as copy, move, rename, delete or is it a list of recent files solely? + many user requests for file management besides this request + unclear four columns proposal, otherwise we should keep the start center simple + no use case to browse through all documents on a drive in all directories (in addition to the file manager) + showing more properties of a document might be interesting (eg last editor,    number of pages, etc.) but not as a full size column; better go with a (lengthy) tooltip => resolve WF