COOL UX-UI Design meeting: 2026-11-05

Present: Ivana, Banobe, Nick, Darshan, Pedro

Banobe
• UX eval on comments in impress
• Too many comment icons on the slide which can block the design
◦ add hide and show toggle for comments in impress

  • Invert colours when changing the document theme in imported PowerPoint master slide templates in COOL.

Ivana:

  • Shortcut UI proposal https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/16346

    • Will try to send gerrit change
  • Impress: navigation close button style

    • AI Ivana: new x icon only for sidebar/navigation
  • (Ivana) Latest updates dialog design changes

    • (Pedro) 1st : Write down all the important content from the CODA welcome dialog → so then we can agree on what should be coming from online and what should be coming from a slideshow/presentation.

      • Ivana AI: add CODA welcome video of the dialog
    • (Pedro) I think the easiest 2nd step is to style the iframe where that CODA welcome presentation is playing so it looks more at home and consistent with the rest of the app/design system.

    • (Pedro) 3rd step could be to

      • Use a regular JSdialog with content coming from online (not from a presentation file) and then have in one of the dialog steps/screens dedicated to transitions with the respective heading and there we can show off them via an embed presentation.
  • trying to test https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/18629, https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/18628 → wip: build for CODA

Nick:

  • DONE: moved present to all and presenter tools to checkboxes rather than toggles

  • CURRENT:

    • Working on changing most toggles to checkboxes

      • Probably not all since Bold, Italic, Underline for example should remain as toggles

        • Ivana: check MSO try to see if they follow any patterns for what is toggle or checkbox
    • Only display one of show/hide slide at a time

      • Cannot reproduce with odp, only reproducible with pptx.
  • NEXT:

    • Performance bug: Import slides from other presentation downloads icons multiple times

      • Have been able to reproduce but haven’t started working on yet.

Darshan

  • Exploring a better solution for text with font colours that may become invisible against different backgrounds. Users currently have to manually switch the font colour to default black or white depending on the mode.