Design/Meetings/2017-05-04

Link
https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/msg08339.html

Minutes
May 04, 2017; 7:47am Heiko Tietze-2 Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2017-May-04 Present: Jay, Akshay, Regina, Heiko, Tomaz

Organization

* Open Tech Summit + https://github.com/opensourcedesign/events/issues/68 + http://opentechsummit.net/ + Considering to talk about Notebookbar (Heiko)

* Infographic Poster + http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-Poster-td4213705.html + Who is able to help?

* LibO mascot + Great input received on the ML so far + Summary at https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/UX-mascot + recommend to do a competition + e.g. x€ or physical price like a graphic tablet + give the top 5 candidates prizes + competition will encourage designers to get involved in LO    + add an announcement to the website/mascot etc.

* Encourage devs to check needsDevEval keywords + for example - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33603

+ First results + reply on G+ https://plus.google.com/photos/photo/111114497115633474296/5997953542348211266?icm=false + from the blog http://practicaltypography.com/tables.html + graph with Likert results https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByWdNpQKVjM8NDhycm9ZWG8xX28 + raw data with comments https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GkhpcvlHL_5pyjvJLTzWOUYYqX8kEkKIdsQVdojhmkY (voting is hidden) + Many comments about awkward and dated styles that we take as consensus to remove them from table styles + Keep legacy autoformat table function with the old styles (Jay) + Would rather clean up the code/UI/styles (Heiko)

+ Requests for plain and simple styles but also some about colored variants (pastel) + Serif font was criticized

Tickets

* Default set of table styles + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101349

+ Implementation + Future development work - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hde6OjJLxDtabQ-BKbsMDRTbnH12x3KI00s3LHSnE3k/edit?usp=sharing + Two styles missing for statistics and invoices with special care for first/last column and header/footer row resp. (Regina) + Avoid vertical grid lines, too much colors + Have ~4 plain and simple styles and ~4 colored but what else? (Heiko) + Alternatively, design some basic themes and colorize them differently (Jay) + How to implement the styles + styles.xml is generated from a binary format which resides at /core/extras/source/misc_config/autotbl.fmt + enhancement request to replace binary format by xml in tdf#107560; workaround needed + the style is rather a template and accomplished by switches what attribute of the template is being used (Regina)