Re: [libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Mar-29

Regarding bug 153899, "Clone format of unmerged cells breaks up merging, 
applies to first unmerged cell only"

So the two pertinent questions brought up in the bug (in comment 4) are:

Q1: Should "being merged" be considered one of the formatting properties 
of a cell?

Q2: If "being merged" _is_ a formatting property, then should the 
clone-formatting apply to all the separating cells getting unmerged or 
just to the first?

I don't see an answer in the meeting minutes. Here's what the minutes say:

>     + merging cells with the keep option does exactly this, we
>       must not format hidden cells

this bug does not regard the merging action, so either this sentence is 
incorrect or I misunderstand it.

>     + copying/cloning merged cells takes merge state into account,
>       however, applying a format via cell style, which is the supposed
>       workflow does not

I'm sorry, that does not make sense. This bug is about "clone 
formatting". If it takes the merge state into account, the answer to Q1 
is affirmative. Now, what about Q2?

>     + cloning the merged state is a convenience feature

I don't understand this sentence. Cloning is a feature in LO calc, and 
you guys decided it also applies the merged or unmerged state. What does 
it matter whether cloning is a "convenience feature" or not?

Given your position, the obvious decision is for the format to apply to 
all unmerged cells. I haven't read any argument for the alternative in 
the minutes. And thus I don't understand why you concluded

>     => WF/NAB

rather than will-fix, is-a-bug.

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Regarding bug 154080: "Comment indicator is too small, non-circumspect, 
easy to miss"

>     + indicators have changed recently and are easy to spot at 100%

They're not _easy_ to spot, but it's certainly better than before, so I 
can live with it.

>       but still somewhat harder at 200%

you mean, because they coalesce with the text overflow triangles?

>     => move checkboxes and colors for text overflow and comment indicator
>       into application color (easy hack w. medium to interesting 
> difficulty)

What will this achieve? Or rather, how will it help this issue?


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