Design/Meetings/2013-10-12

Attendees

 * medieval
 * mirek2

Topics

 * Impress Remote

Log
[15:40] <@medieval> hi [15:41] hi there [15:41] 20 minutes early, I see [15:42] anything you'd like to talk about today [15:42] ? [15:42] <@medieval> not, but i just wanted to see whats going on [15:42] btw, please fill in this form: http://www.doodle.com/my7k6ymvhx83fqw7 [15:43] <@medieval> sunday is always free for me [15:43] please fill it into the form, then :) [15:43] <@medieval> ok [15:43] <@medieval> sorry for not bring here a long time [15:44] that's fine [15:45] <@medieval> field works are mostly in summer [15:45] what was your job? [15:46] <@medieval> i am working with black stork [15:46] <@medieval> but i was mostly in bird station [15:46] ok [15:47] <@medieval> "black stork stopover usage by satellite telemetry" [15:47] hm, ok [15:47] never even heard of that [15:49] <@medieval> as i am living in estonia, then i was in saaremaa island [15:50] cool [15:50] <@medieval> what have been the topics here in latest weeks? [15:50] see for yourself: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Meetings [15:51] not much activity as of late, I'm afraid [15:51] astron hasn't been involved for a while [15:51] <@medieval> (i'm coming back in 15 min) [15:51] hence the idea of moving the chat to a different time [15:51] ok [15:51] <@medieval> ok [16:11] <@medieval> iamback [16:11] hi again [16:12] so... would you like to work on anything related to libreoffice? [16:12] <@medieval> possibly [16:12] <@medieval> i think there isn't much i can work [16:13] what do you mean? [16:13] there's tons to do :) [16:14] and you can always report UX bugs [16:14] writing up the process for that on the wiki as we speak [16:15] <@medieval> i heard a bad news that our Ministry of the Environment is moving back to ms office [16:16] <@medieval> http://www.envir.ee/58736 [16:17] <@medieval> problem is that every "template" were made in ms office rtf format... and libreoffice can't handle it correctly [16:17] that's sad [16:18] <@medieval> yes [16:20] <@medieval> they bought ms office licences with 0.6 million euros [16:20] what a waste of taxpayer money [16:20] <@medieval> i don't know how much licences there are [16:21] they could've easily converted those templates to ODF format for that much [16:21] <@medieval> it was our only government agency that uses libreoffice [16:21] <@medieval> ofcourse [16:21] the bug UX is up: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design [16:21] "Report UX Bugs" [16:22] <@medieval> my brother didn't know the specific problem they had with rtf [16:23] <@medieval> brother is working in enviromental agency [16:23] oh, ok [16:23] for 0.6 million euros, I'd gladly convert the RTF files for them :) [16:23] <@medieval> yea [16:24] <@medieval> but our government "goal" is to move open source platvorms in future [16:25] if they're unable to convert their RTF templates with that kind of budget, I'd doubt their dedication to that idea [16:25] but anyway... [16:26] <@medieval> mostly if they let somebody to make some application for government it must be open sources [16:26] ok, at least that [16:27] <@medieval> yes, [16:27] anyway... [16:27] <@medieval> currently we have e-elections and it s open sources, [16:27] <@medieval> ok [16:27] good [16:28] so... would you like to work on something? [16:28] we have no shortage of tasks :) [16:28] icons are one thing you could work on [16:28] <@medieval> which ones? [16:29] you could help with icons for the iOS remote (that should be relatively simple): http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Libreoffice-ux-advise-iOS-remote-app-icons-td4075362.html [16:29] and also quick [16:29] (not very many icons there) [16:29] or you could help with the monochrome icon set Ahmad is working on [16:30] or with a refreshed Tango icon set [16:30] both on https://github.com/libodesign [16:32] or you can report UX bugs, as I said earlier [16:32] you can test out the Android Impress Remote, if you have an Android device [16:32] <@medieval> i have [16:33] then please give feedback :) [16:34] <@medieval> (at least our government is paying 1000 euros a month to hold up this: http://www.libreoffice.ee/, not best but at least there is something) [16:34] <@medieval> i have intalled it, but havent played around [16:35] ok [16:35] well, when you do, please give feedback [16:35] <@medieval> i need to give a lot of presentations this semester then i can test it a lot [16:36] ok [16:37] still, it'd be good to give some feedback now, before it's released [16:37] to smooth out the experience before release [16:41] anyway, I'll stop persuading you to work on something :) [16:41] anything you'd like to talk about? [16:42] <@medieval> ok [16:43] <@medieval> is color handling going somewhere? [16:45] we don't have a dev for that yet [16:46] we do have an easyhack to get it started, though: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67995 [16:46] just for document colors [16:46] (custom colors would be too hard for an easyhack, it seems) [16:46] <@medieval> ok... [16:47] <@medieval> document colors will be nice too [16:47] if you know a developer who might want to work on it, give him a shout :) [16:48] <@medieval> (will i need to intall some extension in impress to use remote?) [16:49] <@medieval> i donät i looked it up [16:50] you'll have to figure that out on your own :) [16:51] (if you can't figure out how to run the remote, we'll need to work on its UX) [16:51] (try to figure it out just using the app itself) [16:52] <@medieval> it doesn't want to connect with my computer... [16:52] it's not finding your computer? [16:52] <@medieval> it finds it but... [16:54] I think this'll be a UX problem, mostly [16:58] <@medieval> i can to everything with between computer and phone but not that [16:58] <@medieval> now it connected [16:58] <@medieval> i needed to turn adapter off and on again [16:59] ok [17:01] <@medieval> i is working [17:01] good [17:02] <@medieval> i need bigger screen phone but it is usefull [17:03] if it doesn't look good on your phone, be sure to send screenshots [17:04] it'd be good if you could send your impressions to the mailing list [17:04] <@medieval> it looks [17:05] <@medieval> is there optoion where i can look slides in phone when there is blank page on computer [17:06] sorry, don't understand what you mean [17:06] it's a remote, not a presentation viewer [17:06] if that's what you meant [17:07] <@medieval> sometimes gving presentation i need to move to slide like 66 but i dont want show them between slides... [17:08] <@medieval> its not so big problem [17:09] you should be able to do that with this [17:10] <@medieval> but i think having time that shows presentation time will be usefull [17:11] <@medieval> sometimes i need to between 20 min, 10 min, 45 min and so one [17:11] <@medieval> it would be usefull [17:12] you mean a timer? [17:13] <@medieval> yea [17:13] or you mean have more specific time settings for the built-in timer? [17:14] <@medieval> and maybe possibility to countdown [17:14] ok [17:14] I hope you'll write all this to the mailing liste :) [17:14] <@medieval> we have a lot limited time presentations [17:14] -e [17:15] it'll be in the log nevertheless [17:15] <@medieval> ux mailing list? [17:15] or the design mailing list [17:15] (if using the ux list, send it under the existing android remote thread) [17:16] <@medieval> i will write something [17:16] great :) [17:16] <@medieval> ok [17:17] anything else you'd like to talk about? [17:18] <@medieval> not really [17:19] ok [17:19] let's end the chat, then :) [17:20] see you next week [17:22] <@medieval> bye. one bug: it shows red rectangle on wrong slide after 4 slides or... [17:23] <@medieval> i will work with it and make some screens [17:23] great, thanks