Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2016-Aug-05

Present: Jay, Heiko, Cor, Mahfiaz

New easy hacks and extensions
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74740 (rename Paste Only)

Google Summer of Code

  * Area Fill (Rishabh/Heiko)
    * Aug-05
       + New section switcher
          + Try to replace the buttons by something different (Heiko)
       + Remove None from the available fill styles (now sections)
          + Pro: None means transparency of 100%, and now we just define a solid color (Heiko)
          + Con: Setting to a transparent color will cause problems when users which the fill type (Jay, Rishabh)
       + Transparency slider should be included in tab as transparency tab isnt always present in dialog (Jay)
          + Instead add transparency tab to all places its not - e.g. impress slide properties (Rishabh, Heiko, Jay)
    * Jul-29
       + Color selection widget in sidebar
          + Fixed palette selection - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/27474/
          + Save recent colors - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/27688/
       + Color tab in area dialog
          + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/26868/
          + http://imgur.com/a/WxFkz

  * Sidebar Improvements (Susobhan)
      + Styles Preview for Styles & Formatting - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/27706/
      + Alignments and UI adjustments made to sidebar panels:
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/27752/
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/27749/
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/27758/
      + Adjustments made to the Slide Panel for impress and Page panel for Draw - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/27840/
        - Final merge-ready patch should be ready by Saturday
      + Started working on More Shapes Panel again - not much progress made this week (University registrations and reopening)
      + documentation missing; please write a couple of lines for the docu team

   * Notebookbar (Szymon, Kendy, Samuel)
        + google doc of suggested improvements (jay)
          https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vabkHLibXBXY8SSDJ6aa17VOoVYoCNZdPBttrv9aOFU/edit?usp=sharing
        + dislike ribbon like tabs, no sections header as in the initial proposal (Heiko)

   * Table Styles (kendy, jakub)
       + It's now a tab in styles and formatting section
       + Need to create various predefined table styles
         + Lets keep track of propsals in a bug and have the final decision
           of what is add to the product later (Heiko)
         + Need an XML format to share proposals instead the binary today (AI: udap)
         + Lets just direct format a couple of tables (Jay)

Enhancements and proposals
    + Enabling activation of extra large 32px icons (Jay)
      + All Breeze icons have been done
      + Need dev to do the necessary to enable to option in the options dialog

Hi Heiko,

Heiko Tietze schrieb:

Date: 2016-Aug-05
Present: Jay, Heiko, Cor, Mahfiaz

   * Area Fill (Rishabh/Heiko)
     * Aug-05
        + New section switcher
           + Try to replace the buttons by something different (Heiko)
        + Remove None from the available fill styles (now sections)
           + Pro: None means transparency of 100%, and now we just define a solid color (Heiko)
           + Con: Setting to a transparent color will cause problems when users which the fill type (Jay, Rishabh)

The fill style "NONE" is different from "SOLID + 100% transparency" and has to be retained.

(1) You see the difference, when you use style inheritance. If you set the color to "yellow" in the child, you will indeed get yellow in case the parent has FillStyle="NONE" and the child will be transparent in case the parent has "SOLID + 100% transparency".

(2) When you use area fill for paragraph background, then you get interoperability problems, because other applications (I have tested AOO4.2 and Word 2010) do not get the transparency for paragraph background correctly, but interpret FillStyle "NONE" correctly.

(3) If a search for attributes will be implemented, then FillStyle="None" is surely different from "SOLID + 100%transparency".

(4) You need "NONE" anyway, because "NONE" is value of enum FillStyle in the API.

Kind regards
Regina

Nothing to say against saving full transparency as none. But the UI would impair on this option.