[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-May-24

Present: https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/design#L39
Comments: Eike, Ady, Bogdan, Rafael, Tomaz, Timur, Roman, Stuart

Tickets/Topics

 * Find & Replace: Checkmark "Current selection only" automatically
   unset after repeating "find" (or "find/ replace") despite that area
   is still marked
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141296
   + dialog should remember the option (Eike)
   + after f&r the dialog selection is lost (Ady) and searching
     again makes no sense (Heiko)
   + iterative operations are common (Bogdan)
   + only obvious issue is that replacing items may end in no selection
     and the fact that current selection depends on  whether more than
     one cell is selected (Heiko)
   + remembering the option is desirable (Hossein)
   + MSO has no option to _ignore_ the selection; replacement is always
     applied to the selection if more than one cell is selected (Hossein)
   + makes sense to drop the option (John); option is good (Shu)
   + MSO does not change the current selection on replacement (Heiko)
     + it's kind of a convenience feature to quickly see what has been
       changed (Heiko)
     + could be made dependent on whether a selection was active before the
       replacement (Hossein)
   => comment

 * Confusion between "bibliography entry" and "citation"
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155050
   + bibliographical entry is part of the toc - and citation a more
     common term for the functionality (Stuart)
   + alternatively use "reference"? (Heiko)
   + compare with well-known 3rd party tools Mendeley, Zotero,
     Endnote (John, Hossein)
   + Zotero uses "Citation" and Bibliography (John), MSO Word as
     well (Hossein)
   => do rename

 * Pasting a table cell, pastes the source cell in the upper/actual
   cell as an inner table cell
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149625
   + different behavior depending on the selection; same behavior
     for MSO Word
   + inserting a table into a table cell is possible too (Heiko)
   + wondering if this has a real use case (John), apparently it is
     as questions on the web indicate (Hossein)
     + Search for "nested tables" in BZ
   => resolve NAB

 * Remove empty rows faster in Calc (add in LO instead of extension)
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151133
   + common use case, integration makes sense (Rafael, Tomaz, Timur)
   + does it exit in Excel? (John), unclear (Heiko)
   => do it (for both row and column)

 * rename “Modify” button into "Assign"
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155214
   + wouldn't change (Roman)
   + Assign fits better (Stuart, Heiko, John)
   => rename

 * Simplified options dialog
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90989
   + simplification means essentially to create new dialogs
     from scratch- with a lot of effort
   + searching for content simplifies the workflow
   + improve rather than start from scratch (Hossein, John)
   + still think it's beneficial (John)
   + MSO does a worse job by some simple tabs and one large
    "Advanced" (Hossein)
   + small-size devices such as handhelds demand a smaller
     options dialog (John)
   => do it

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