Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #14
Date: Feb 25, 2021
Next meeting: Mar 04, 2021
All minutes published on: https://forum.collaboraonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14
Attendees:
- Nicolas, Ezinne, Muhammet, Szymon, Gökay, Aron, Pedro, Andras, Kendy, Michael
Community update (Muhammet)
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80+ new contributors (25+ code contributors) since the move to GitHub
- Expect Community Roundup #10 later today.
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Blog posts are appreciated
- Thanks for those who did!
Template Contest (Nicolas)
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33 submissions, 10 really good
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Several, 5→7 good ones
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Been reviewing some of them (Pedro)
- several that look good, nice to have a Book template eg.
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Happy with the results overall
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Hope to get them reviewed, winners selected & paid soon.
JSON Toolbar / Notebookbar changes (Kendy)
- No updates since last week
Bind Mounting / Hard-linking (Gabriel)
- No updates this week.
CanvasTileLayer bits (Gokay)
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Got the scrollbar / custom scrollbar pieces removed
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About to merge soon & test & then hopefully work towards a release.
Icon theming (css class names) (Andreas K)
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Andreas not present
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Tests still pending
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Would love to get some closure here (Michael)
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Would like to look into this too (Pedro)
- If not, lets do this on the backend side
Async Saving (Kendy)
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Ash gradually moving from Poco to our own code
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Converted download & up-load to using our own sync code
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Using our own socket code now on master.
Draw bits (Kendy)
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Mert has enabled lines & connectors – so we can move points to connect to glue-points
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Can insert connector lines into Collabora Online
- in some convenient way.
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Also enabling control points on custom shapes: happy/sad smileys etc.
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Enablement of ‘Draw’ component itself is coming.
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Support for Notebookbar was missing there – being added.
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Coming to master shortly & hopefully can release in CODE next week – lets see.
CI is down (Kendy)
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Gökay having a look – but can’t see breakage locally
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Can anyone see ‘make check’ break locally?
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WOPITemplate test …
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If so, would love a bisect.
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Release schedule bits (Andras)
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Just announced COOL 6.4.6
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Another CODE: 6.4.7 next week …
Missing fonts an issue (Nicolas)
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online / desktop – get a small hint in the font list – with an italic name
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is it of interest to solve the issue in a broader sense.
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Insert a font the document needs – would be good to
have a database / service that can offer the user an option to get it -
Proprietary fonts eg. Arial → have metric compatible fonts
- repository with fonts and a mapping.
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Work as a community – font-names & fallback fonts, and sources to get them.
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Some concerns wrt. Normal users installing fonts (Michael)
- we have mappings left & right for this internally for Ariel, Times New Roman etc.
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Templates – are using non-MS core fonts (Nicolas)
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MS core fonts are ok, but getting more fonts is good.
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Crazy fonts in popular templates – create interop. Problems when saved as DOCX(Michael)
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hard to know what to do about that.
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Can embed the fonts.
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Want to warn people about missing fonts → that make documents look bad
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can point people to Noto for example.
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Could query Google font repository (Kendy)
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problems taking a document font-name and posting it publicly a problem (Michael)
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a local database / JSON / XML could solve that (Nicolas)
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officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/VCL.xcu (Michael)
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we are missing information: what is a good quality fallback font – and do we have that?
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Needs some re-work of the abstraction there.
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URLs to get / download these fonts from (eg.)
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This will need a serious write-up / plan (Michael)
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Pull requests in need of attention (Kara)
- Two open pull-requests waiting; and reviews are requested
Next Meeting
Next meeting will take place on Thursday, Mar 04, 2021 at 11:00 am (UTC)