Design/Meetings/2016-02-12

Link
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Minutes-of-the-Design-Hangout-2016-02-12-td4175999.html

Minutes
Feb 19, 2016; 5:48am Jan Holesovsky-4 Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2016-02-12


 * Present: Heiko, Stuart, Samuel, Jay, Jan-Marek


 * GSoC is close again

+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas + needs to be filed in until the next Tue + Heiko will add the ideas there (/done) /done Area Fill, Table Styles, AutText, Bibliography + we should file in the tasks that are completed from the design point of view + Table styles, Customization dialog, Sidebar, ... + design session stuff : table of contents dialog, symbol dialog, fill dialog https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6qJrVIa0SAlcFV0Q2lWMmdUcW8&usp=sharing + redesign template manager https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JRPNdeHQpgqiqJv8LW-RHOjtHN8EMX0qK98QBnr10Yg/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ri2jznhcQmCtk3cVygEhwN7pi8FkbIVV_OvRQce_n6Y/edit?usp=sharing

AI: Add TOC, Special characters dialog, Templates Manager (Heiko) /done Templates Manager, Special Characters, ToC + Jay: add a Styles usability improvements section + list the various things to implement to GSoC-next ideas + Ahmed, Jay: Brainstorm about some nice / more styles for Calc https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/boards/1/topics/493 [longer term - maybe better to add to the GSoC Styles task?] + Jay: Impress also needs more default object styles (only 2 are available)

+ The side bar currently has a maximum size limit + problem for wollmux exension (Jan-Marek)
 * Sidebar max width (Jan-Marek)

+ in general, let's give freedom to the extension developers (Kendy) + we just need to make sure any random extension does not take over the entire LO :-) (Kendy) AI:    + put together few screenshots to explain the needs a bit better (Jan-Marek)        - http://snag.gy/e8550.jpg        - http://snag.gy/Q6pvY.jpg        - http://www.wollmux.net/wiki/WollMuxBar#Suchleiste

+ fan of the changes, just need to be careful - fixed size has some merit too (Stuart) + having a fixed/minimum value by default and allowing a sidebar extension dev to modify this value through api (Jay) + https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/awt/XDockableWindow.html

+ Sidebar Bug Reports (Stuart) The Sidebar Meta - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65138

Sidebar "philosophy" where it needs to go - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33223#c11

a key feature -- multiple & detatchable decks, and support in profile state https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67770 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85905


 * Update Default font

+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97577

+ Would be useful to change the default font in all apps rather than just impress (Jay) + Droid Sans, Serif, Mono (used on Android, available in Google Docs, available in ubuntu 12.04 & debian 6-backports) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_fonts + Noto Sans, Serif, Cousine (droid derivative to fully cover all scripts in unicode, available in ubuntu 14.04 & debian 7) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts + Caladea, Carlito (bundled with LibO, metric compatible with MS Office default fonts, available in ubuntu 14.04 & debian 7-backports)


 * Draw-related survey (Heiko)

+ published and continued (will close on Friday, 19 February) https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2016/02/07/what-do-you-expect-from-draw/ http://user-weave.com/survey/b0edf831f89d4d23bb3d6b6ba3e574a9?12