Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2016-Jul-29

Present: Olivier, Jay, Heiko, Susobhan, Kendy

Easy hacks and extensions
  - nothing new

Google Summer of Code

  * Sidebar Improvements (Susobhan)
      + Removed duplicate code from Media toolbar and Media Playback panel - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/27363/
      + Working on adding checkbox for Styles Preview for Styles and Formatting - patch should be up by Saturday
      + Please check why 5.3 crashes when the sidebar's context menu is being closed
        (configuration menu button https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/SideBar)

   * Notebookbar (Szymon, Kendy, Samuel)
        + Several issues solved (empty tabs, window resizing etc.)

Enhancements and proposals
    + Font substitution (Heiko)
      + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94327
        https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96872
        https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78186
      + First of all have a better information (Jay)
      + It's in tools > options because admins may set it company wide (Kendy)
      + Provide means to install missing fonts directly, perhaps (Kendy)

    + Publish Layer/Group blog post? (Heiko)
      + Proof-reading first (Jay)