[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2025-May-07

Present: Sahil, Eyal, John, Heiko
Comments: Stuart, Rafael, Mike

Tickets/Topics

 * When inserting a video file, it is not scaled down to slide
   (or smaller) dimensions
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166286
   + large images are scaled down (Heiko)
   => do so

 * Insert > Media submenu offers images, but not Audio/Video
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166285
 => WFM/INV

 * Insert custom break, "Insert Break..." dialog in Page mode,
   show current Page Style
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166100
   + [None] continues the current PgS and inserts a right page as
     next style to a left page (Heiko)
   + current PgS is shown in the statusbar, no need to show the
     information in the dialog (Heiko)
   + agree with the request since we have redundant positions
     everywhere, the statusbar can be hidden, easy to miss, a label
     does not hurt (Eyal)
   + label could be placed below "Page Style:" like "Current page
     style: <label> and in the line "Next page style: [dropdown]"
   + suggest to amend the existing label like "Page Style
     (after <name>):" (Sahil)
     + Perhaps "Page style before break:" and "Page style after
       break:" (Eyal)
   + [None] is misleading and actually rather what is defined as
     default under "Next style" in the current PgS
     + we may change it into the actual style name (Sahil)
     + or go with "[Continue]" or amend the following PgS name (Eyal)
     + resolved WFM in bug 77698 but no good reason (Heiko)
   => comment

 * Need mechanism for indicating which page of a document to use
   for a thumbnail
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166175s
   + reasonable (Stuart)
   + Calc uses the current tab (Rafael)
   + agree with the request but neither a simple solution like
     current view or overly complex; own artwork maybe (Mike)
   + any solution needs to have a low impact on the UI (Heiko)
   + use case a) many documents with similar first page, b) meaningless
     or even empty first page, c) privacy maybe (Eyal)
   + simple solution could be to add a spin edit at the meta data that
     allows to define the page for thumbs (Eyal)
   + clumsy solution and does not solve the wish for a use.-defined
     random bitmap; we could offer this in the meta data - with the
     drawback that a certain page other than one is not easy (Heiko)
   => comment


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