[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Feb-14

Present: Sahil, Rafael, Hossein, Heiko
Comments: Stuart, Jean-Francois, Eyal, Stephané, Ady

Tickets/Topics

 * Freeze Zoom as a global LibreOffice preference
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159156
   + assigning <Ctrl>+0 to .uno:Zoom100Percent as fixed shortcut (Stuart)
   + though must not touch Ctrl+0 in Writer (Jean-Francois)
   + ignore zoom-in/-out via keyboard or lock zoom (Eyal)
   + could be an option "[ ] No zoom per touch pad" (Rafael)
   => add the option (perhaps macOS only)

 * Comment commands in Calc's menus need to be rearranged
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158653
   + split of comment-related commands is not ideal (Stephané)
     + yet done intentionally for bug 91820
   + not convinced that changing the menus is the best path forward,
     it's basically grouping by action vs object (Ady)
   + other applications go with action-focused menus too (Hossein)
   + no better place for comments than under Sheet (Heiko)
   + when coming from the Notebookbar it feels wrong (Rafael)
   => resolve NAB/WF

 * Dialog Properties bigger then screen
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159409
   + not confirmed, dialog is ~637px in height on win (Stuart)
   + but there is a duplicate report; and report is from gtk3
   + reduce the number of lines for the comments textbox (Hossein)
   + turning the wall of inputs into two columns (Rafael)
     + has the challenge to cover long labels (Heiko)
   + long term solution: add some mechanism to VCL/weld that restricts
     oversized dialogs and automatically adds scrolling (Hossein)
  => do it

 * Page direction not the same as sheet direction
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158601
   + recent bug reports have proven that users do not agree (Ady)
   + if the request is to bind the UI-only setting Sheet > RTL to
     Page Style > Text Direction (the superordinate setting of
     the text direction in cells) the recommendation is to rather
     not do
   + Excel knows a "context" option for the cell direction meaning
     if the entered text is RTL the cell becomes RTL (Hossein)
   + The context option will handle the use case automatically, and
     also handles the situation with bilingual cells (Hossein)
   + problem accepted, solution rejected = WF

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