Design/Meetings/2017-01-26

Link
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Minutes-of-the-Design-Hangout-2017-Jan-26-tc4206270.html

Minutes
Jan 26, 2017; 7:19am Heiko Tietze-2 Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2017-Jan-26

Present: kendy, jay, steve, heiko, tomaz

Tickets

* Remove snap-to-grid setting in favor of menu options + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105326 + Remove from options? + One per document the other in general? (kendy) + But if they are both the same, no objection (Kendy) + Menu access was added recently; no need to remove the feature from tools > options (Jay)

Tasks

* Talked shortly about a11y guideline; still WIP

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

* Unit conversion + variable, high precision input + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72662 + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44267 + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105176 + task may be too small for gsoc (Jay)

* Improvements to Notebookbar + issues in current implementation + WYSIWYG configuration (replaces https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Rework_of_the_Tools_-.3E_Customization..._dialog ) + include sidebar + not sure that sidebar improvements relates to notebookbar (Jay) + Custom xml format for Notebookbar (Samuel) + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Notebookbar + Agree (Jay)

* Improvements to Sidebar + preview for tables styles + this is part of the table styles gsoc and not sidebar (Jay) + preview for graphic styles + more important is cell style previews for Calc (Jay) + could be 3 projects (kendy) + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Review_of_the_sidebar_.26_its_functionality + general improvement to sidebar that has been going on every gsoc (continue susobhan's work from laste year) (Jay) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AOkDSqNfO7Hyj-a-tURyXISeuZRUx1JRE8P30YhnBXo/edit?usp=sharing

* Block diagrams + Auto format of (block) diagrams (tdf#99669) + SmartArt (tdf#37932, tdf#92902) + this is interopability and should be part of a dedicated interopability gsoc project (Jay) + would be nice (kendy); we suggest this project for years (tomaz) + prototype patch by thorsten available (kendy)

* Callouts + see discussion about broken links in https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105187 + (suggestion to introduce those controls was done last week;    callouts provide non-interrupting information for the user, e.g. in case of possible issues in the future) + interesting, use case not fully clear (kendy)

* Navigator + https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2016/07/31/how-the-navigator-may-support-object-handling-in-libreoffice-draw/ + make sense (tomaz) + Bjoern mentioned he wanted to take this on, so maybe he could be a mentor for it (Jay)

* Custom Shapes + inbuilt editor + better shapes + new gallery (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Revamp_the_gallery_tool ) + thumbs up; interoperability is difficult when it comes to custom shapes (kendy)

* Blurry shadows + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48722 + very good for gsoc (kendy) + made something in the past which could be used (tomaz) + most wanted #1/2 (heiko) + important for svg (Jay)

* Brushes + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90045 + could also solve https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66587 + would be cool to have (kendy) + but very hard to implement... (Kendy) + most wanted #2/2 (heiko) + dont sure i see what is hoped to be acheived (Jay)

* Dialog improvements + meta - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102019 + Table of Contents: Entries tab + please improve it (tomaz) + New dialogs + Object Properties - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96355 + Chart properties - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90687 + Load Sytle dialog + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102002

* Bibliography dialog + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Bibliography_dialog + needs mockup but still very relevant (heiko)

* Application Themes + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Application_Themes + kick out because of notebookbar (heiko) + having different layouts/visual layouts would be nice (tomaz) + yes, I'd still keep it in the list (Kendy) + still important to theme the entire application to have a consistant look across OSes (Jay)

* Document Theme + yeah, will support this (tomaz)

* Online Media + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Online_Media

* Special characters dialog + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Special_characters_dialog

* Revamp print dialog * Improve handling of AutoText