Design/Meetings/2022-04-27

Link
https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/2022/msg00045.html

Minutes
Present: Eyal, Heiko Comments: Seth, Dieter, Cor, Csongor, Regina, Roman

Tickets/Topics

* Commands related to styles miscategorized in customization dialog + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131760 + patch submitted SID_TEMPLATE_LOAD -> Template, SID_STYLE_DESIGNER -> View (Seth) + another name like "Style Functions" might work as well (Eyal) => comment

* Explicit toggle for ToC/Index title + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148320 + no issue, preview available (Dieter, Cor) + alternative is to have a checkbox "[x] Use title" and enable the input respectively + improve consistency, maybe novice user would not try to delete, label "Type and Title" is misleading, and we have enough space in the dialog (Eyal) => nice easyhack for beginner-

* Need to make Insert cross-ref more accessible + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148648 + alt+shift+R or C (Eyal) + (default) shortcuts are precious, but no preference from my side (Heiko) + alt+shift+R is assigned to View > Rulers (a single time function), would feel better to reassign this one (Heiko) + having this shortcut makes sense (Eyal) + don't mind but strongly encourage a shortcut for cross-reference (Eyal) => do it

* Mark page center on horizontal and vertical rulers + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148128 + no objection, useful idea (Cor, Csongor) + not a requirement for Writer and available in Draw/Impress (Heiko) + page center is not clear, eg. including the gutter? (Regina) + there is a snap function for the actual position of the shape + for tables, for example, it's also important to know where the center is (Eyal) + if we implement a positioning feature it should be one used across the app which is the snap lines in Draw; make positioning very flexible since the objects could be aligned to left/right of the center too (Heiko) + snaplines needs to be enhanced to also snap at the center of objects and to snap at the page center + centering an object in Writer is possible via Position & Size (also    with option to consider or ignore the gutter) + still interesting to see where the center is; and it has a minor impact on UI/UX (Eyal) + center could be realized per printer marks but those depend on    columns - what center is meant in case of columns or other content like sections, frames etc.? + bug is about center of page + a) suggest to split the bug into mark and snap and b) ask for input what center exactly is meant (page, text area, paragraph... or any) + prefer to not do (Heiko) => comment

* UI: The No List button constantly highlighted when no some text isn't a list + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148790 + standard mutually exclusive behavior, NAB (Heiko) + but typically positively defined, would prefer two buttons (Eyal) + easy to customize (hide button) and working well (Heiko) + having the No List button has not much benefit for the user and occupies space, so removing/hiding makes sense => check whether No List was added but recommend to remove

* Rework the Sparklines dialog + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148568 + Mockup provided (Roman) + looks good + vertical axis needs min/max labels, the caption and controls should become properly indented (ideally the first control right of the caption) + Axis should be Axes, Properties -> Basic Properties + this configuration would greatly benefit from a preview => comment