[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2025-Oct-30

Present: Heiko
Comments: Bogdan, Ilmari

Tickets/Topics

 * Vertical tabs with GTK3: Not enough vertical space between tab headers
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168637
   + focus rectangle (dotted frame) is indeed smaller than selection
     indicator (bold blue(?) line at the tab side)
   + native on gtk3, could be hacked maybe via CSS but would be odd (Heiko)
   + no other application uses VT with GtkNotebook, nothing to compare
 => double check implementation

 * There is no 'apply changes' to Chart dialog in librecalc
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164658
   + changing attributes is easy (Bogdan)
   + chart properties are applied as direct formatting, which never has
     an Apply option (Heiko)
 => resolve WF in favor of chart style (bug 62925)

 * EDITING Spellcheck should work similarly to Thunderbird's
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164390
   + there is no "old" (and better) spellchecker until 3.5 (Ilmari)
   + alt+S (~Suggestions) to select and Enter to run Correct - pretty
     straight-forward (Heiko)
   + TB's spellchecker is not better per se (Heiko)
 => make a duplicate of bug 132505 (redesign the dialog)

 * UX Improve NB Tabbed UI with textboxes
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168930
   + text box is not a shape and remains at the Home tab (with all text
     manipulations available); shapes switch to the Draw tab but once the
     text is selected the context changes to Home again
   + sounds like a bad idea to duplicate the Home content (actually it is
     a shortcoming of this type of UI)
   + besides, the Draw tab is crowded with advanced functions and deserves
     a more user-centric design, and adding at least the shape style
     sounds very much reasonable
 => keep the ticket for this narrow request and change the summary

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