Design/Meetings/2022-04-07

Link
https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/2022/msg00038.html

Minutes
Present: Heiko Comments: Cor, Csongor, Eyal, Stuart, Rizal

Tickets/Topics

* Mark page center on horizontal and vertical rulers + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148128 + some indicator on the ruler and/or snaplines in Writer + good idea (Cor, Csongor) but(?) maybe as snap positions for helpline + no good workflow for Writer, precise handling done with Draw anyway + helplines do the trick out of the box (Heiko) => WF, but keep open for a while

* Allow reorder of Sections using the Navigator + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148236 + unclear use case, can of worms (Heiko) + fun to have, but unclear how to position in relation to other content (Cor) + request to drag one section into another one likely WF  => remove UX, suggest WF

* Missing/unexposed ability to explicitly set the "language group" of a piece of text + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148257 + matter of principle as it does not make sense that setting a direction also sets the language and changing the direction of a run of text must not change its font (Eyal) + cannot judge on challenging the code basis (Heiko) => remove UX

* Page Area in Start Center Does Not Respect Application Colors Scheme + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148282 + Start center’s hard-coded color scheme doesn’t work for high-contrast mode users + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99116 + thumbnails don't pick up the document colors (Rizal, Stuart) + waste of dev effort to recreate thumbnails on those changes (Stuart) + rather than using an arbitrary hard-coded color for the dialog we should prefer the system theme, which should fit in most cases with what was used to generate the thumbnails (Heiko) => fix the background color but don't update thumbs

* Page preview, need toggle button for system colours <> real colours + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139875 + +1 (Stuart, Cor) + switching the colors is not a frequent interaction and well suited at tools > options; clearly -1 (Heiko) => remove UX