Meeting Minutes				OpenOffice.org
Weekly Meeting common User Interface (CUI)

Date	September 19^th 2002
Time	10:00h, MEST
Location	Cupertino, eham-02
Attendees	+ Hans-Peter Burow (PB) + Christian Jansen (CJ) + Matthias Müller-Prove (MMP) + Frank Schönheit (FS) + Oliver Specht (OS) - Gunnar Timm (GT) + Christian Lippka (CL) + Daniel Rentz (DR)
Minute Taker	MMP (next: GT, OS, DR, CJ, CL, FS, PB, MMP)
Distribution List	http://ui.openoffice.org/protocols

Action Items
Roundtable

1 Action Items

Item	Responsible	Status
previous items
Investigate Tools/Options layout	CJ	in progress (1.1)
Collect occurrences of "do not show this again" dialogs	all -> FS	in progress (1.2)
Look for guidelines regarding "do not show this again" dialogs	CJ	done (1.3)
new items
Save Cursor Position in Writer Document	CJ	new (2.2)

1.1 Investigate Tools/Options layout

The left navigation pane of the tools/options dialog is too narrow to display all topics for all languages properly. CJ is going to look for a better width value.

1.2 Collect occurrences of "do not show this again" dialogs

We (nearly) all collected the occurrences of "do not show this again" dialogs. Now Frank will make a summary of it and will publish this collection to OpenOffice.org.

1.3 Look for guidelines regarding "do not show this again" dialogs

According to the KDE guidelines, a button "Show all messages again" should be used in the options panel.

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/dialogs/simple.html

However, this does not apply to StarOffice 6.x

2 Roundtable

2.1 Jump to Text Cursor Position

CJ and FL are analyzing the current behavior when and how SO/OO.o scrolls the view to the cursor position. Sometimes this causes an annoying effect, e.g. on saving a document the window scrolls back to the text cursor.

2.2 Save Cursor Position in Writer Document

Some user like that SO/OO.o Writer opens documents at the position, where the document was last saved. Some other users dislike this feature. Esp. on distributing SO/OO.o documents to other users this is an unintended quality.

Action Item for CJ: Summarize the pros and cons and propose an UI spec for this topic.

Read-only documents should always open in the default position
Cursor position can/should be stored in the history. This makes the state relative to each SO/OO.o user.

2.3 Last Document Close Behavior

MMP is working on a new definition for the behavior "What should happen if the user closed the last document in SO/OO.o?" Proposal will be posted to OO.o' Web site, soon.

2.4 oeone

CJ suggests to take a look at http://www.oeone.com/

They have done a desktop with Linux/Mozilla/XUL technology.

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