Collabora Online Weekly #108

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Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #108

Date: Feb 16th 2023

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Attendees (write your name):

• Pedro, Szymon, Gülşah, Ezinne, Anna, Gökay, Andras, Nicolas, Aron

Release schedule (Andras)

• Tested 23.05 on staging (this afternoon will probably get pushed to staging)
• We will keep produce snapshot packages and then → CODE new docker image based on 23:05
• iOS release based on 22:05 is in the works (now we have concept build → published in the Apple’s testflight)
  • Found issues → a new one will get release today

Nicolas

• Trying to setup CO with oCIS but a bit difficult, documentation seems small
  • Pedro: Yes, I had the same problem also looking into this
  • Nicolas: I got it working but I needed to get an older CODE docker image and it now works.
    • Sent Email. Thanks!
• Spent some time testing iOS

Nextcloud bits (Julius)

• Working on dropping an .ini file in top-level Nextcloud sync folders so that the desktop client can interact with locking / desktop / collaborative editing as the user chooses → waiting for desktop client team (richdocuments PR ready)

  • planing call next week
  • Tor working to read / interpret this and tweak the UI to better integrate
  • some potential issues getting authentication tokens for LibreOffice – so deferring this to the next step. (ping the user on the local side that there is a possibility to keep editing the same document collaboratively )
  • Julius talking to client team about auth issues. Expose a ini file for edit online in Collabora Office / LibreOffice · Issue #4880 · nextcloud/desktop · GitHub

• Copy while in read only mode → AI: Pedro create task

• User mentions pull request is in progress Implement user mentions API by Raudius · Pull Request #2576 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub → merged

  • Raul out for a bit → we need to hand off that. Missing: sending notification to the user.
  • Julius is taking over and it should be available in the next NC 26 release

Community (Pedro)

• Forum
  • Reminder that we have a mailing list (it works since last year)
  • New public mailing list
• https://collaboraonline.github.io/
  • Credits (translations)
  • Next: Improve iOS instructions A.I.: Pedro will add info about branches
• GitHub
  • New “Project” feature
    • Different view, possible to track issues and Prs
    • Already setup automatic workflows (a new PR get’s automatically set to To Review etc)
    • To do: Make the adding of issues and Prs automatically
  • Citations bug (zotero library too large)
    • Szymon: Look at how to solve this → maybe by paginating the results so we don’t try to pull all at once [to do]
  • Options button not working/lack of functionality/dialog in Writer->Format->Sections->Options → Skyler grabbed this issue. Thanks!
  • File properties not localized reported by Sebastiaan → tested and confirmed
    • Probably missing translation in the core side
      • Aron tested it is now fixed and closed https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/146900 merged as LibreOffice/core@ba2d211

Community: Dark mode

• AI: Pedro needs to rebase dark mode branch (and solve any conflicts coming from new sidebar work) , then ping Andreas K.
• Branch was very old and with multiple conficts. Branch rebased and now ready to receive Prs. AI → rebase branch and force push
• There is an issue:Add a dark mode · Issue #4382 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
• Why in a branch not master ?
  • We got regressions left & right here.
    • Affecting the non-dark-mode.
    • Plan to add a switcher so it doesn’t do it automatically.
  • Can just merge it – and hide the switcher.
    • Make it visible in CODE.
    • Also trigger info jsdialogs.
• Michael poking in his spare time at this.

GitHub activity (Pedro)

• Gulsah
  • Now onto the uno button problem / Feature lock double dialog → fixed and merged
  • Working on formula are not being update sum cells in frozen rows and columns are not always updated · Issue #5818 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
    • It looked like Core problem but after a closer look it’s actually on Online side
• Context TopToolbar for all apps #3869 ← ressurect this PR would be good but without animation. → Ping Andreas K.
• icon size use css variables #5420 by Andreas-Kainz · Pull Request #5561 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → Pedro: reviewed, pinged Andreas. This is part of Tabbed view: bigtoolitem has decreased in size · Issue #5395 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub

Design bits (Pedro and others)

• Hannah → list of dialogs / jsdialogs etc.
  • Looking at the core side dialogs so we can see which ones are missing tp convert to JSDialogs in the Online
  • Finding instructions of how to launch each dialog
  • Which do we have in online & which do we not have.
  • Probably good to add comment/list into: How to help with JSDialogs development (porting dialogs to native HTML)
• Connectorspopup improvements Improve connectors popup dropdown · Issue #5418 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → awaiting for review
• Hyperlink popup, text input field (misaligned ) is actually a textarea
  • Pedro: tried to fix it by replacing the html element (not possible it would break for some cases). Instead fix the height and the misalignment via CSS.

Other ongoing work

• Uses some interaction handling sync, not working at the moment

  • WRT mentions Rash is trying to make ongoing mentions work
  • Finalizing now: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/5093
    • A problem with component but not really related with mentions PR
    • Raul: still working on the public share issue (nextcloud side). What about notifying the users? Probably not a high prio thing but worth chasing [done]
    • Kendy: Ok, please report and we will look into that. But we also need to look further on how all that works on Calc and Impress
  • Next → Discuss /test within richdocuments (NC), WIP
  • Merged → AI (Julius/Raul) to check/test it
  • mention: send a postMessage to integrator when username is selected i… by Rash419 · Pull Request #5334 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  • Also for calc and impress: mention: enable in impress and calc by Rash419 · Pull Request #5317 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub

• Szymon:

  • Line break fix for DeepL fixed, next
    • Now it works, test added
    • Found second case: selecting the new document → to do
  • File properties dialog was not working on some languages
    • Quotes were being used and thus breaking the JSON
  • Content controls dialogs fixes (overlapping buttons)
  • Impress: dissapearing text box fixed now
  • Citations features that require integration will not be visible if the integrator doesn’t support it

FOSDEM

• All talks and slides available at Talks and Slides by Collabora Productivity at FOSDEM 2023 - Collabora Office and Collabora Online
• Follow up blog post (report) will be published soon

COOL Days 2023

• COOL Days 2023 - Cambridge, UK - Collabora Office and Collabora Online
• Please RSVP: COOL Days 2023 - RSVP Options - Collabora Office and Collabora Online
• We have booked the beautiful Clare College on 28th and 29th March 2023, one of the many famous Cambridge Colleges for our next Collabora Online Conference.
  • Book your seat, fill the form! - free accommodation from 27th → 30th & food for attendees.
  • Speakers much appreciated
  • It should be easy to travel to airport London Stansted and then get to Cambridge by Train.
  • There will be hackfests, Collabora Online and LibreOffice and much more fun
  • Keep an eye for event updates every week
  • AIL Link this to the chat headers
• (Naomi) Send emails (invitations) → also possibly add more info to the web page → Done
• Now we have a schedule! Check the link: COOL Days 2023 - Cambridge, UK - Collabora Office and Collabora Online
  • Technical Day
  • Treasure hunt
  • Dinners

Next meeting

23/2/2023