Design/Meetings/2016-06-17

Link
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Minutes-of-the-Design-Hangout-2016-Jun-17-tc4186453.html

Minutes
Jun 17, 2016; 8:47am Heiko Tietze-2 Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2016-Jun-17

Present: + Cor, Kendy, Bubli, Samuel, Jay, Heiko, Akshay, Sushobhan

Confirmed easy hacks + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92152 (half arrow head; skill: svg/design) + Blog post: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lgAD-aE54IswyAwg6yJ6MeTstCjznPvQR1nV_R95OXs/edit# + like the idea, comunication with Jan is necessary (and was done over the ML) (kendy) + consider that credits/copyrigths will not be given to the designer if the code is commited by someone else (Bubli) + publish (all)

GSoC * Template Manager (Akshay) + Patches are merged, qa/documentation is to be done now * Progress of Area Fill project (Rishabh) + Pattern/bitmap split will be finshed today + Creating the new bitmap tab is planned for next week * Progress of Sidebar Improvements (Susobhan) + Styles Panel patch finished, up for review - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/26020/ + Merged Page Background Panel to master (from Impress to Draw), should be in 5.2 + Working on existing issues and enhancements for Area Content Panel - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90078#c4 + Start with Shapes Tab next week after Area Content Panel enhancements * Notebokbar (kendy) + Rework of code is ongoing * Table Styles (kendy) + Focus on core work; import/export to odf + Table style is Writer specific and not relevant for Draw/Impress and Calc

Enhancements and proposals + Push extensions (Heiko) + e.g. tdf#71176, tdf#91874, or color replacer, or overall paragraph changer etc.     + Extensions keep the main UI clean and simple but allows to enhance the app for special use cases + Suggestion is to have a separate component/keyword in the bugtracker for tasks that can be enhancements + Find users/coders to work on extensions + We have a component extension (kendy), qa team should make clear what it is used for (Jay) + Would need some needDevEval before moving a bug to this component (Jay) + Will bring it up to ESC for pushing it to the community + Disable automatic linking of urls by default (Samuel) + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100424 + Sticking with common behavior is preferrable (Jay) + Fixing all the bugs has first priority + Bug closed as WONTFIX + Results from poll about bookmarks on root level + https://plus.google.com/107566594492891737454/posts/FA4RgWeUDmT + 35% for simplicity, 65% for functionality (bookmark and cross-reference at the root level) (48 votes) + Reversed and placed at root level - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/26418