[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Mar-27

Present: Sahil, Antonio, Cor, Bogdan, John, Eyal, Heiko
Comments: Stephane, Stuart, Timur

Tickets/Topics

 * A11Y sidebar: Too many issue reports about direct character formatting
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159906
   + group by paragraph (+ 0.5 Stephane)
     + maybe list per paragraph under one root node (Heiko, Antonio)
   + offer an action button (+1 Stephane, Heiko, -1 Stuart)
   + action is not necessarily to remove DF; could also
     be "Dismiss" (Cor)
   + could be a more complex UI with more interactions, filters, batch
     operations etc. (Sahil, Antonio)
     + could be done in a later patch (Cor)
   => let's go with the extra tree node per paragraph and maybe page too
      and no action button for now

 * Add all 3 Spotlight commands (PS, CS, DF) to Style Inspector
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160194
   + maybe per icon-only toggle button (Stephane)
   + agree with the proposal as it matches the workflow (Stuart)
   + clutters the UI and is not in scope of the workflow (Heiko)
   + it's not uncommon to have those buttons in the UIs (Cor, John)
     + neither a big improvement nor a huge impact on UX (John)
   + customization is sufficient (Antonio)
   => let's do it

 * Use "Delete unused master slides" independently from "Minimize
   Presentation" tool
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159860
   + warn in case of an excessive number of master slides
   + rather fix bug 158773 than alert user on some high number (Heiko)
   + MSO is loading quickly but still warns (Timur)
   + warning could offer to delete unused master slides (Antonio)
   + warning should happen on load; covers also issues with import
     from other applications (Antonio)
   + realize per infobar to not block the workflow (user may click away
     the confirmation box), OTOH depending on severity it should
     interrupt
   + label could be "You have an unreasonable number of unused slide master.
     [Clean Up] [x]" (Heiko)
     + hesitate to delete a lot of content with just a click, so - suggest a
       confirmation dialog when pressing cleanup (Eyal)
     + add a button "Inspect" to the infobar (Cor)
       + strongly disagree with different actions on the infobar (Heiko)
     + add Help button to educate the user (Antonio)
   => do so

 * MRU Recent files list entries numbered, no need to be
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160230
   + number seems to be useless (Bogdan)
   + actual date/time like MSO makes more sense (John)
   + handy for a11y resp. keyboard only access (Stuart,Antonio)
     + Alt+F + U + 1 opens the latest pinned item, for example
     + numbers above 10 take the first character from the filename
   + number indicates the recency (Eyal)
   + mnemonics inside the filename are hard to spot (Cor)
   + alternatively we could go with alphanumeric characters A..Z (Sahil)
     + this would require using different alphabeta in different localized
       UIs (Eyal)
   => no good argument to remove the numbers -> WF

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