Design/Meetings/2017-03-16

Link
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Minutes-of-the-Design-Hangout-2017-Mar-16-tc4210331.html

Minutes
Mar 16, 2017; 7:11am Heiko Tietze-2 Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2017-Mar-16 Present: Eric, Tomaz, Jay, Samuel, Akshay (JanD)

Organization

* How to work with both the design team and end users to improve LibreOffice UI/UX (Eric Ficheux) + Follows UX improvement requests from a user survey in Nantes + 5000 users asked a couple of open questions online + 75% are fine with LibO + First results indicate design relevant issues regarding printer setup and bullets/numbering + Goal is to study, make proposals and implement + happy to get the results and to help in analyzing (Heiko)

* Major release update + Q1/18 - next steps? + Tender for design; Budget? + will ask the tdf team next Monday (Heiko) + New branding needed (KJ) + Coordinating work with Marketing team (maybe some stuff for conference?) (KJ) + we could have started with releasing of 5.0 (Jay) + we should hire an experience designer > have a tender (Jay, Heiko)

* Custom Shapes + Had a kick-off today + http://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/UX-CustomShapes

GSoC projects

* Ideas do not have code pointers, making things harder for new gsoc students * Discussion on Customisation dialog (Akshay) * Akshay will do the special character project mentored by Samuel + limited scope without OCR part, which would be very pity as OCR would be a killer feature + maybe completed by another project + https://user-prompt.com/libreoffice-design-session-special-character/

Tickets

* New default bullets + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106507 + Not a fan as presented (Stuart c4) + Better we align the bullet/numbering workflow/dialog to what has been done with area fill style meaning presets, show properties on selection, ability to add own presets... (Heiko c7) + Users actually requested the shown dash (Eric) + Looking forward to see the design (Jay)

* Color picker + New default color palette https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87538 + no of rows + 8 rows http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=131473 (Heiko) + 9 rows http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=131574 (Jay) + don't like scrolling in that dialog, so rather 9 than 8 rows (opinion Cor) + survey runs, results indicate equal acceptance of v2 and v3    + lets have a talk during the week with Thibaut (Jay) + different number of rows based on OS or DE    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106458 + was a GSoC project two years ago, maybe kendy knows (Samuel)