COOL UX-UI Design meeting minutes: 2026-07-09

[darshan]

2026-07-09

#h2Minutes

• Present:

• We need another icon for boundaries

  • Also we should rename it to Outlines or No Outlines

• Needs UX Eval

  • #15930 Switch App Style per document

    • Some integrators such as nextcloud have implemented a different tab icon depending on the doc type

  • #15907 Calc Formular Sidebar → closed with comment

  • #15906 Calc Formular Layout update → answered

• Easy hacks

  • Community page open graph image: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/CollaboraOnline.github.io/issues

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/11933 add tooltip

• Dialog vertical tabs and the settings dialog https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/15896

  • Contents of settings dialog comes from iframe, doesn’t share components but the component (vertical tabs) should look and behave the same → follow up.

• Add Reviewing to mode switcher

• Collabora Office

• https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/14519 [Design review] Context toolbar

• Banobe

  • impress: gifs do not play in presentations → GH-13576

    • Patch for animating gif continuously

    • https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6331 → Needs review

    • Should gif only play when its frame is selected or it should continously play until the user pauses or plays it

• Darshan

  • 6334: cool#15975: browser: middle click opens a hyperlink instead of pasting | https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6334 =>Need review

  • 6495: calc: open the autofilter popup at a compact width | https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6495 => review done, waiting for CI

  • Hyperlink - Clicking a hyperlink in the Hyperlink dialog does not open the link

    • https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6460 => Need review

    • AI: Add cypress test

  • padding issue to fix for prompt card

    • !

• Ivana

  • Change color picker widget

  • Writer template done

  • Needs review: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/15707#issuecomment-4875728427 Tab Insert update Impress

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/15906 Calc Formular Layout update (commented)

  • other UX issues

    • Hyperlink behaviour when in presenters console

    • Formula guide behaviour

    • Shape tab appears when editing text box

• Raul

  • Moving Line section from sidebar to notebookbar – hit a wall currently:

    • dropdowns can not properly anchor to the notebookbar, they are created but do not visually appear

    • Following previous examples might not work…

  • Fixed a small focus issue in the orientation popup

  • Prioritised accessibility work for a bit

• Sahil

  • dynamic zoom rework

    • lots of investigations

    • hit a wall (I think… need to verify that)

      • the partHasComments is on a per page basis

      • the page size is also on per page basis I think

      • when we calculate the first zoom, we don’t have any document size by then, so I wonder how I would calculate newsize/oldsize ratio which the zoom needs, so I need to investigate if zoom needs that ratio at all…

    • so I will continue the investigation, ask Szymon on the matrix channel once I know that the wall is real.