[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2021-Nov-24

Present: Cor, Heiko
Comments: Roman, Regina, Stuart, Ilmari, Adolfo, Eike

Tickets/Topics

 * Support for working with online CC0 photo gallery source images
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145740
   + do as extension or implement in source code? gsoc maybe?
   + out of scope (Roman)
   + linking to external sources is often doomed from the beginning (Cor)
   => moved to extension
   => created a META ticket for similar ideas tdf#145878

 * Create a "Duplicate sheet" option in LO Calc
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145745
   + (hidden) workflow per shift/ctrl+click (Regina)
   + solve by introducing a new function or via static label explaining
     the functionality (Heiko)
   + Move is necessary for large databases (Eike)
   + would introduce uno:DuplicateSheet (Cor)
   => do it; easyhackable

 * Cell reference are highlighted black when putting = into a cell
   and clicking a different cell
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145812
   + convenience feature if one can click another cell to overwrite
     but at the same time + to continue a formula
   + MS Excel does behave the same but does not show the selection
   + complaints are rare, behavior exists forever (Cor)
   + not showing the selection shouldn't hurt too much (Heiko)
   + difference to Excel is that we highlight only the last cell
     while Excel does all (with different color coding)
   + Excel highlighting is also not straight-forward (Cor)
   + lot of effort for not much benefit (Heiko)
   => WF

 * "Insert > Object > Bar Code..." menu should be "QR and Barcode..."
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145728
   + .uno:InsertQrCode ("Bar Code...") and .uno:EditQrCode "Edit Bar Code..."
   + Bar code is accepted too acc. Wikipedia (Ilmari)
   + inconsistency should be solved (Ming)
   + (Insert) "QR and Barcode..." (Stuart, Adolfo)
   => do it

 * Redesign of Start Center user interface
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145782
   + out of scope (Stuart)
   + do we want the start center to provide file management functionality
     such as copy, move, rename, delete or is it a list of recent files solely?
   + many user requests for file management besides this request
   + unclear four columns proposal, otherwise we should keep the
     start center simple
   + no use case to browse through all documents on a drive in all directories
     (in addition to the file manager)
   + showing more properties of a document might be interesting (eg last editor,
     number of pages, etc.) but not as a full size column; better go with
     a (lengthy) tooltip
   => resolve WF

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