[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2026-Oct-21

Present: Eyal, Dan, Sahil, Heiko
Comments: Jan, Stuart, Jérôme

Tickets/Topics

 * option for the scale(s) in plots to get to maximum points
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164613
   + just change the max/min the the actual value (Jan)
   + do not touch the scaling; values below the absolute maximum
     still show the column and potentially change the meaning (Heiko)
   + current defaults are sane; could imagine an expert option
     that changes the heuristics against the real data and its
     absolute maximum; if we had more demand for this change,
     I would be more strongly in favor. (Eyal)
   + MS Word behaves like Writer
 => resolve WF as true axis maximum is important

 * Tiered Level of Detail / Zoom Enhancements / Object Movement Enhancements
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173882
   + rather do as "infinitely scrolling grid" (Jan)
   + agree with an option to switch from absolute to relative grids (Heiko)
   + disagree with this relative grid but could enjoy the tiers (Eyal)
   + if we use tiers, it's important that their rendering does not make
     people confuse a newly-visible tier with a tier that has stopped
     being visible with the change of zoom level (Eyal)
   + dislike the overly complex options resulting from tiers (Heiko)
 => comment

 * button that inverts the colours of the displayed document with a
   single click (.uno:ChangeTheme)
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168489
   + just toggle white document background (in dark mode) makes sense (Stuart)
   + don’t need a button to switch between the light and dark themes (Jérôme)
   * wouldn't change uno:ChangeTheme but add another command to turn
     the document canvas dark (Eyal)
 => add the command, don't change the Tabbed UI

 * New color picker frames around colors have inappropriate intensity
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173769
   + prefer the simpler implementation (Heiko)
   + both are no solution; expect the same appearance as before (Eyal)
 => first step is to submit the patch with simple shadowcolor; second
    to implement a better design

 * Consider making the read-only "Notify" open action the default for
   "Document in use" locked file dialog, and use suggested action
   class styling
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165573
   + Notification seems not to work... no, it just takes ages! (Heiko)
   + user may not get informed to keep the safe readonly state; and
     perhaps also to not get bothered by the message (Eyal)
   + MS Word has the same workflow including the notification (Heiko)
   + integrate the dialog into the infobar (Dan)
 => weak agreement

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