COOL UX-UI Design meeting minutes: 2026-06-11

Development
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  • Present: Banobe, Ivana, Raul, Bayram, Darshan, Pedro, Sahil, Szymon

  • Inventory of sidebar components yet to be ported to Notebookbar or elsewhere (Raul)

Context Sidebar section Button / Field missing Observations
None Style Update selected style Perhaps we should add these options as part of a new right click context menu (in the nb styles icon view)
New style from selection
Character Toggle Shadow Is in Format tab > Format
Clear Direct Formatting In home tab
No break
Paragraph Unordered List The dropdown
Ordered List The dropdown
Select outline format Including the dropdown
Hanging Indent
Line Spacing Custom value field
Above / Before / Below / After / First Fields
Image Area Fill Options besides color + suboptions
Transparency type Don’t know how to fix this, Perhaps we could have another contextual Area tab (once Samuel’s gerrit change enters)
Transparency (?) Is it different from the other transparency?
Wrap Spacing
Position and Size Width Position and Size button unavailable in Picture tab
Height
Keep Ratio
Text Attributes ENTIRE SECTION
Shape Line ENTIRE SECTION w/o Color
Effect ENTIRE SECTION
Area Fill Options besides color + suboptions
Transparency type
Transparency
Table Table Row Height
Column Width
Minimal / Optimal Row Height
Minimal / Optimal Column Width
Alignment
Left / Right Spacing
Fontwork Fontwork We have Insert Fontwork but we are missing the Contextual Fontwork tab (ENTIRE SECTION)
Formula Elements We have a contextual tab but we are still missing some elements. ENTIRE SECTION

  • Raul: Working on moving the Line settings section (shape selected)

  • Design tools

  • Dialogs and tabs

  • Help > Latest Updates dialog

    • The 3 icons on the very first page were meant to be updated every release

    • 2nd page: the Collabora Online screenshot needs to be updated

    • 3rd page: the Community page screenshot needs to be updated or replaced by something more generic that doesn’t require updating

  • Contextual tabs

  • Notebookbar icon views

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/15926

      • Currently we don’t have step scrolling. It would be better to have it so every scroll nor matter if via the mouse wheel or the button would move the content the exact same amount of rows (1) always.

      • Probably best to have it generic: additional json property VS if doesn’t have label it automatically

  • Mobile: Calc

    • Move formula bar to the bottom → anyone can take this please

  • Ruler

  • Comments and its own scroll view

    • Currently:

      • Scrolling above a comment → does nothing

      • Scrolling on the right side, above a comment → scrolls the whole canvas (document page and comments)

      • → problem impossible to scroll through comments while retaining the document page’s context

      • Szymon: we could give a fixed height to the canvas comment section and then even assign it with a different background color and then it will look like a comments sidebar.

      • Sahil: problem I still need to do a lot of recalculation on resize

        • Szymon: Maybe Gokay can give you more info because we, in the past, avoided to account for comments but probably we could have sections attached so the calculations get updated automatically.

        • Sahil: asynchronous nature (1st sidebar, 2nd comment) → needs fixing

  • About : JSDialogs: View widgets → (AI) Darshan to create easy hack or hackweek

    • Has problem with the main dialog buttons

    • Possible better to add 2 or 3 tabs

    • Is it up to date?

    • Link to Design with us?