[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Jun-05

Present:  Sahil, Rafael, Eyal, Aditya, John, Heiko
Comments: Eike, Ady, Justin, Cor

Tickets/Topics

 * basic HTML cell render
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161223
   + by no means into the formula expression engine (Eike)
   + another formatting layer might be possible (Eike)
   + also not working to concatenate cell content with formatting (Heiko)
   + over-complicate things (Rafael)
   + could be realized per extension (Sahil)
   => WF

 * RecalcOptimalRowHeightMode should be effective for CSV imports also
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160983
   + line-breaking characters should not be modified by the
     import process (Ady)
   + request is to make RecalcOptimalRowHeightMode available for every
     import, maybe with a third state that asks on input;
     but still for WF (Justin)
   + makes the import dialog overly complex, WF (Heiko)
   + probably not so rarely needed (Eyal, John)
   + if done as Ask it should not be a dialog (Eyal)
   + RecalcOptimalHeight was recently introduced with yes,no,ask
     and might be sufficient for the user (Rafael)
     + though it's not working as expected
   => NEEDINFO, likely WFM

 * UI - dashed outline for active cell border
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161204
   + active cell/range indicator is meanwhile shown outside the cell (Ady)
   + change selection color or line style (eg. dashed with document color)
     depending on cell background on/off (Heiko)
   + clashes with marching ants on copy (Eyal)
   + cells with dashed borders would be another issue (Eyal)
   + Excel does two lines, one with the selection color and another
     in white or the cell background; sounds like a good solution (Rafael)
   + might be ugly as with do draw the focus rectangle only around the
     focused cell and the selection receives a background too; making the
     background smaller would be not so nice
   + merge selection color with the cell and/or document background (Heiko)
   => assign to Rafael

 * Support showing combinations of (named) style + direct formatting
   in Stylist
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161251
   + do not overload simple controls (Cor)
   + show only on the flat tree like Applied Styles (Eyal)
   + inspired by MSO's Styles widget which optionally merges all
     information (PS, CF, DF) into the list (Eyal)
   + Styles Inspector does the same (Rafael), Styles Highlighter too (Heiko)
   + reasonable request; feature parity is always good (John)
   + MSO is not a good example for styling documents (Rafael)
   + low impact on usability possible, eg. per additional filter that shows
     applied styles + DF (Heiko)
   => comment

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