[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2025-Mar-06

Present: Sahil, Mihai, Heiko
Comments: Stuart, Regina, wodsfort

Tickets/Topics

 * Special Character selection applying another font
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159227
   + some use cases require to store the font with the unicode character
     other are better suited without (Heiko)
   + have a global option
   + block the special character features for non-shipped fonts (Sahil)
     + strongly disagree (Mihai)
   + never a perfect match possible, WF (Stuart)
   + decide per addition via another command eg. "Add to favorites with font"
     plus "Add to favorites" (Heiko)
   + "smart" solution like comparing the current font whether it contains
     the stored character with the same name (Sahil)
   + show an infobar if the stored glyph is not available for the
     current font
   => comment (and make it a duplicate of  bug 155274)

 * Consider combining the "Text" and "Alignment" tabs of the
   Drawing Object Style dialog
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165298
   + huge difference between win and linux for the dialog size,
     see also bug 164351
   + not enough place to combine (Regina)
   + not a fan of combining unrelated tabs (Stuart)
   + clearly a NAB/WF (Sahil, Mihai)
   => resolve WF

 * Add direction indication to mock-preview in style dialog
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165299
   + sounds reasonable (Sahil), no opinion (Mihai, Heiko)
   + indicator could be the pilcrow symbol
   + for "superordinate setting" we may need to hide the indicator
   => comment

 * With multiple table cells with different background colors
   selected, wrong common background color shown
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165422
   + indicate the non-active color by a crossed-out image (wodsfort)
   + show all colors somehow next to each other (Heiko)
     + too much effort (Mihai)
   => comment

 * Difficult to find radio group for toolbar command display
   style (Icon/Text/Both)
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165087
   + Put this choice in a submenu of the View > Toolbars menu
     + strongly against this solution (Heiko)
   + Put this choice in a submenu on the context menu for toolbars
     + acceptable solution (Sahil, Mihai, Heiko)
   + Put this choice directly within the Customize dialog
     + disagree with this (Heiko)
   => do it

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