[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-May-30

Present:  Hossein, Sahil, Heiko
Comments: Michael, Stuart, Eyal, Stephane

Tickets/Topics

 * UNO Sidebar 'Hide' and 'Show' sidebar deck (splitwin) --
   a new function (available for assigning a shortcut key to it)
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161037
   + switch/toggle tab with alt+<num> combinations (Michael)
   + provide a keyboard toggle for the splitwin to collapse (Stuart)
   + ctrl+f5 closes the sidebar, the close button (x) closes,
     the special sidebar button minimizes it
   + overly complex interaction, suggest to not change it (Heiko)
   + interaction is ambiguous, when the window width is smaller than
     the sidebar width, the sidebar disappears (Hossein, Sahil)
   => resolve NAB/WF

 * Special Find&Replace presets with regular expression
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161029
   + sounds good but with limited features (Stuart)
   + good for an extension (Eyal)
     + https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/70066
   + no room for presets, dropdown fills with previous searches (Heiko)
   + regex is complex and a few presets wont help (Hossein)
   + MS Word has a special dropdown to search for a couple of most
     often used special characters such as page break or soft hyphen
   => examples are rather suited for documentation

 * Provide framework to suppress editing with direct formatting of
   a styled document, or template
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153309
   + must not force people into styles, WF (Dieter)
   + Tools > Protect > [x] Allow Direct Formatting (Heiko)
   + rather per-document/template method (Stuart)
   + however, we provide all means to hide DF interactions
     and disable it globally might feel broken (Heiko)
   + it's possible with MSO (Hossein)
   => go for it

 * Print dialog: Put initial focus to "Printer" combobox
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161082
   + change the dialog landing to the "Printer" (Stuart)
   + keep at copies as this is more frequently changed (Heiko)
   + similar to MSO, move "number of copies" to the top (Hossein)
   + switching to the number of copies is easy done per alt+n (Heiko)
   => follow a11y

 * Add "Apply" button to all tabs of Table Properties dialog
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160858
   + sidebar/toolbar offer relevant functions (Stephane)
   + immediate feedback from the apply button is important (Sahil)
   + consistency is prime, Apply is available for styles but not
     direct formatting (Hossein)
   + rather remove the Apply buttons than adding to more
     dialogs (Hossein)
   => comment with recommendation to resolve WF

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