Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #193

Development
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Date: 07/11/2024

All minutes published on: https://forum.collaboraonline.com/tag/meeting-minutes

Attendees (write your name):

  • Anna, Ezinne, Caolan, Darshan, Bayram, Hub, Méven, Szymon, Attila, Richard, Joao, Sven, Gulsah, Gokay, Timur

Testing

Files – ( password is coolmeeting)

  1. Release Schedule

  • Green CODE 24.04.9.2 today/tomorrow

  • Mobile

    • iOS app released

    • Android app released

      • Improvements on the Clipboard

    • both are based on 24.04.7.3

  • PRs in need for attention (Please add here any PR that needs attention)

  • PRs without reviewer https://github.com/orgs/CollaboraOnline/projects/3/views/2 now 3

  • Nicolas

  • Gabriel

  • Julius

  • Getting much more frequent races causing a download of the file … when clicked. (Michael)

    • seems like a richdocuments / Nextcloud race… perhaps more plugins installed …

    • now have draw.io/BPMN/etc. etc. in the list here … probably related to this.

    • Finally have a reproducer on our instance

    • Seems the viewer API has a design flaw in that regard

    • Our files engineering-team is looking into having a work around

  • S

  • Nightly CODE docker image for easier testing

  • Thorsten

    • [No update]

  • Attila

  • working on collecting command usage information (what users undo most times)

  • Andras

    • no update

  • Szymon

  • Cypress test for tree view

  • Improving TreeView widget, a11y, cleanup, extending with keyboard handling and context menu

  • Darshan

    • PR:

      • Accessibility : Enhance Drop-down Accessibility with Arrow Key Navigation #10378 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10378 : In review

        • Follow up → Handle grid view inside submenu of list-view (Use KeyboardGridNavigation for this ). Ex: “Conditional formatting ”

      • Working on Presenter Console UI Improvements

  • Aron

    • nothing to add

  • Caolan

  • Chris Lords 1st stage work merged now

  • Auto committed Watchdog profiles

  • Bayram

  • (In Progress) - Enhancement - Show “Delete contents” info when using auto-fill for deleting cells (GH#9913) : https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/9913

    • core: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/175827 (Merged - 24.04)

      • done: send to-be-deleted cell address information from core

    • PR: (in progress – online)

      • now: working on the core&online side to send the selection color of the cells when using autofill to online → investigating…

      • have code pointers on the core&online side

      • try to send color from core, maybe there is no changes needed on the online side. core sends the autofill selection color, we can use similar one for deletion by dragging (Caolan)

  • Skyler

  • Mobile release planned for late-November

  • Legacy format work is in

    • Can now export impress to a bunch of formats from online … (single slides to png/etc., whole presentation as svg/swf)

  • Have a patch to insert video/audio in impress

  • Improved our determination of when to show some touchscreen UI elements (droplet under cursor) – we now do it if the last input method you used was a touchscreen rather than

  • Doing some work on the android app now – looking at the progress bar, also seeing if it’s best to have performance task reassigned to someone else but if not I’ll continue work on that

  • Pranam

    • Calc formula tooltips now available in each users language (earlier it was based on language of the first user who loaded the document) → tested today, it works!

    • Various improvements for dark/light theme text in calc when font has automatic colors → let’s test this today

    • Fixed resolved comments would have highlighted on reload even if resolved comments are hidden.

  • Gökay

Continues:

  • Various bug fixes & reviews.

  • Impress Notes view → Checking dark mode view. Switching to/from dark node with multiple users is buggy.

  • Impress Notes view → currently the slide thumbnails do not get properly refreshed. Caolan has a fix in test now.

Next:

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Next meeting

  • 14/11/2024