Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2017-Aug-03

[Heiko_Tietze]

++++ MEETING WILL START AT 3pm UTC+2 (CEST) BEGINNING NEXT WEEK / AUG-10th +++++

Present: Eric, Jay, Tomaz, Heiko

Organization

  * Participation in the design meeting declined
    + Bubli: criticizing the missing technical background of proposals
    + Samuel: lunch time around 13, preference is 9-11 or 14-16
    + Tomaz/Eric: it's okay but vacation time during summer
    + Eric: maybe better advertise the meeting to the community
    + Stuart: would attend at 3pm
    => starting at 3pm beginning next week

Tickets

* Switch default to 16:9 in Impress/Draw
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93244
   + good idea (Heiko), bad idea (Jay)
   + introduce a user setting or remember the last setting (Heiko)
   + perhaps make it dependent on the actual screen dimension (Eric)
   + run a quick poll (Eric)
   + https://plus.google.com/107566594492891737454/posts/Gv86jqr9qyf
   + Aug-02, ~4pm CEST+1: 37/95 (28%/72%)
   => so let's do it

* Missing 16:9 templates
   + some avail from the last competition just need to get included (Jay)
     https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Rd2oHyCMaQLWvDj3ciorJZkILsaoZV0FhomiLEsCago
   + task is to finalize the voting, clean-up the templates, and submit all eventually
   => AI: Please have a look at the GSheet and up/down vote the templates
   + once the voting is done Jay will do the grunt work

* Terminology for Spelling and Grammar
   https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87648
   => go for 'Spelling' only

* Introduce a 'histogram' function in Calc
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74665
   + calculate the bins automatically (based on user input of how many)
   + followed by frequency() and creation of the histogram
   + run as a wizard (Data > Statistics)
   + no mockup needed as the wizard have a generic ui (Tomaz)
   + formula is to find n bins equidistantly between min and max
   => no further UX input required

* Indicator for overridden properties in inherited styles + means to reset
   https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88559
   + duplicates, good mockup for resetting properties in tdf#89826
   + indication of inherited properties needed (Jay)
   + maybe a section similar to 'contains' does the trick (Jay)
   => lets check how others do it

* Disable Autocomplete depending on paragraph style
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76282
  + reasonable request but complicates the UI
  + auto complete can be disabled easily; shortcut is customizable
  => WF because too complicate for average user and out of scope

[italovignoli]

* Switch default to 16:9 in Impress/Draw
   + good idea (Heiko), bad idea (Jay)

I have sent a comment by email but it looks like it has been ignored:
most conference centers still have 4:3 configurations, so switching to
16:9 would be a problem for all people speaking at conferences (with a
few exceptions). There should be a resizing feature which allows to
switch from 4:3 to 16:9 without changing the aspect ratio of iterms on
the slide (which is what happens today). A large slide with more white
space is not a problem, and is often acceptable, as much as a narrower
slide with less white space. A large slide with all objects stretched
orizontally is not acceptable (and needs a lot of rework).

   + perhaps make it dependent on the actual screen dimension (Eric)

This should be a must.

[Heiko_Tietze]

Your voice has been heard, like many other on G+. The change is about the default where today >70% have to switch from 4:3 to widescreen. In future it is the minority including you who has to change the format. The functionality remains as it is.