[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2025-Mar-26

Present: Shail, Eyal, Heiko
Comments: Ilmari

Tickets/Topics

 * Allow targeting of styles and formatting via regular expressions
   in Find and Replace
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165725
   + allow targeting of styles and formatting via regular expressions
     would be quite ambitious; extension offers most (Ilmari)
   + use case is reasonable but text processor are typically not the
     tool that are utilized in this way (Eyal)
   + bug 139585 "All search patterns provided by AltSearch.oxt should
     be implemented in LO Writer directly" mad dup of bug 38261
   + trust in extension, whether existing or new (Eyal, Heiko)
   => make a dup of 38261

 * Replace the Bibliography Database by a dialog to manually input
   new sources and to fetch from online sources via identifiers
   for citations/bibliography/references
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121958#
   + replicating Zotero (and similar) requires a lot maintenance (Eyal)
   + prefer extensions for features that are not needed by the
     majority (Heiko)
   + fetching data from free(!) online sources into the existing dialog
     sounds more feasible (Eyal)
   => comment

 * Options -> Appearance new LibreOffice Themes panel redesign
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164970
   + add system, light, dark to themes and drop the "appearance"
     radio buttons; add a checkbox "[ ] Use white background for documents"
     (together with all other document colors except app background)
     and disable the customization in this case (Sahil, Heiko)
   + If we keep the "appearance" categorization, suggest themes could
     be only-dark or only-light, as theme creators may have
     theme ideas which only work aesthetically in one mode; it would
     not be useful to make them include "dummy" or "filler" colors
     for the other mode. (Eyal)
   + prefer single color sets in external themes ie. extensions (Sahil)
   + missing color ie. automatic color will be picked from the system
     colors and potentially change with the system theme change (Sahil)
   + mockup with the updated design created
   => comment

 * Next week agenda?
   + open discussion (Sahil)
   => announce on the ML

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