[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2025-Apr-02

Present: Martin, Juze, Heiko
Comments: Jan, Mihai, Eyal, Miguel, Jean-Francois

Tickets/Topics

 * Conditional formatting dialog does not have an Apply button
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166390
   + Bug 37336 Add an "Apply" button to various dialog boxes (Writer, Draw etc.)
     + see also 124278, 135267, 153187, 166390, 171345, 171447...
     + but Bug 165679 Data Provider: Remove the "Apply" button
   + if done it should be consistent (Jan)
   + Cancel needs to become Close after Apply; Preview could show the changes
     but not persistent without Ok'ing it (Mihai)
   + we use inline previews as alternative (Heiko)
     + Apply means to Ok the modification without closing the dialog
       and without a true cancelation this is pointless (Heiko)
   + like and support Apply; always need to run a dialog repeatedly
     because I never know for sure what attribute I have to change (Martin)
   + unified preview would be good; expect to see everything at once (Juze)
   + isn't the idea based on the hovering preview Microsoft does
     (they do not have apply in dialog either) (Heiko)
   + suggest to not have Apply on dialogs but introduce live preview
     on hover for floating widgets (Heiko, Juze)
   + still prefer Apply in dialogs but only if Cancel would reset
     everything (Martin)
   => comment for now

 * Make sheet tabs size and spacing more customizable
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166498
   + follow system settings (Heiko, Eyal)
   + rather have easy access to the sheet list (Heiko)
   => resolve WF/NAB with ref to bug 171207

 * Add a button for list of sheets showing in Calc to sheet tabs row
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171207
   + right click a sheet shows the list (Miguel)
   + request makes sense, maybe not as hamburger (Jan)
   + triangle icon is well known from browsers such as Firefox (Martin)
   + suggest another button to show a dialog with all sheets (Martin)
     + not a friend of too many buttons in this tab bar and would
       like to have it as an entry in the list maybe together with
       close all or the like (Heiko)
   + sounds good, alternatively the name length could be limited or
     shortened per ellipsis; afraid of too many sheets that break the
     popup (Juze)
   => comment

 * Uncompleted tree of list styles
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170850
   + a template could do the trick (Jean-Francois)
   + sounds like a plan (Heiko, Martin)
   => do it

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