Design/Meetings/2017-02-16

Link
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Minutes-of-the-Design-Hangout-2017-Feb-16-tc4208088.html

Minutes
Feb 16, 2017; 6:13am Heiko Tietze-2 Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2017-Feb-16 Present: Thibaut, Jay, Heiko, Tomaz

Welcome back to the design team, Thibaut!

Organization

* Release plan for 5.4? + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/5.4 still missing

* Sidebar Guidelines + Design Session: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oKabPLLVe9s53i475W1-v0QA7cxc_0oT0qfVr68KWjM/edit?usp=sharing + Blog post: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_JdBb6g1pxixXWqhSXXA06dnRdYkGk4AapuOE1JaZDM + fix issue with tab from last control to content panel title (should go to hamburger) + skim through it once again (Jay) + publish tomorrow

* Have a special UX hackfest/meeting? + idea from Arnaud acknowledged by TDF + who would attend? (Jay) + me *g* (Heiko)

* Use Git for guidelines? + pro: managed review process (Heiko) + allows linking with dev repo and to have a comparision of code state with guideline state (Thibaut) + formatting needs to be considered (Thibaut), maybe use a "markdown" tool, e.g. http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ + Similar solution is being considered at KDE as well (Heiko)

GSoC projects (see also https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas)

* Ideas are collected under http://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/UX-GSoC_Ideas + Added: 21 Revamp the Customization dialog, 22 Multi-color gradient + Found mentors for some projects but still room for more

Tickets

* Add donate link to the help menu + help increase the access number significantly + suggestion by tdf team to do the same for donations + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105831 + idea was discussed during the rework on the help menu (Jay) + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96015 + no one voted against this solution so do it (Heiko)

* Modify table styles + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101648 + Backport to 5.3 (Xisco) + solved by hiding the menu items + will add a task to GSoC projects (Heiko)

* Restore Clear Direct Formatting + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102915 + Cor will handle this (Jay) + Idea is to have the standard paragraph and character styles in a submenu along with edit styles and clear direct formatting (Jay) + would be the same as in the main menu + should be improved to user-defined styles or styles used in the document (Heiko)

* Gridline/Helpline gate + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105560 + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105326 + issue is that it's not clear where settings are stored, per account, session, or document (Heiko) + proposal is to make Tools > Options settings always account related, and to have menu setting should change the property per session or document (Heiko) + today we have various settings in the View menu for instance that are permanent, which would be needed to be non-permanent or link to the Tools>Options dialog (Thibaut) + alternatively have a clear separation of account vs. document/session related settings in the options dialog (Jay) https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105751 + View menu is rather a shortcut to Tools>Options and almost all functions are permanent (Jay) + while this usability issue is clear, that's how most other programs work (Thibaut)