[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-May-22

Present:  Eyal, Sahil, John, Heiko
Comments: Aron, Jan

Tickets/Topics

 * When you select part of a column with merged cells, all columns that
   are part of the merged cell are selected
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158288
   + NAB (Aron),
   + selection should denote/depict the merged cells (Eyal) vs.
     selection starts on top-left to bottom-right
   + we are Excel compatible, and actually even better (Heiko)
   + is a range-selection (not to confuse with multiple cells) meant to
     include all from x1 to y2; if so the behavior is correct
   + merged cells take actually the content from the top-left cell
   + copying of multi-selections is not possible
   + unclear use case, potentially impacting the workflow of many
     users (John)
   => comment with needinfo

 * Want MS-Word like auto-formatting of beginning of list item
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158874
   + cool stuff (John)
   + could it be done via extension (Sahil)
   => do it

 * Form creating is too niche to merit a main menu item visible by default
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161031
   + rarely used; conditional logic tricky to maintain and test (Jan)
   + was done to align with other modules, IIRC (Heiko)
   + changing the main menu is a PITA for users, showing conditionally like
     "View > [ ] Show Forms Menu" and also "[ ] Show Shapes Menu" is possible
      but would be quite uncommon; = NAB/WF (Heiko)
   + no strong opinion (John, Sahil)
   => resolve WF to safe users from the annoyance of changing menus

 * FORMCONTROLS: Add ability to Find and Replace field names
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160938
   + intention is to (batch) rename fields, which is not needed (Heiko)
   + finding controls might make sense for a huge number of items, which
     is not so likely; and the Navigator lists the content nicely plus
     will have different sort methods (Heiko, John)
   + being an ODF editor requires a place to find everything which
     is defined (Eyal)
   + F&R with RegEx works well and might be handy for object names in
     some cases (Eyal)
   => both points are valid, keep ticket

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