Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #197

[darshan]

Date: 05/12/2024

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Attendees (write your name):

• Andras, Attila, Hub, Joao, Mike D, Ezinne, Pedro, Banobe, Caolán, Darshan, Gokay, Gülsah, Skyler, Szymon, Vivek

[image] Testing

Files – ( password is coolmeeting)

• Calc - Nextcloud

• Writer - Nextcloud

• Impress - Nextcloud

• Features, user flows (Anyone can add here the things they need to test)

  • [Application] [Requester]: what to test

1. Release Schedule

• CODE 24.04.10.2 is scheduled for this week – in QA now

• Mobile

  • iOS app 24.04.9 released
  • Android app 24.04.9 released

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

• PRs without reviewer Collabora Online · GitHub now 2

  • browsersync: fix paths by eszkadev · Pull Request #10663 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  • Private/gokay/hyperlink 4 12 by gokaysatir · Pull Request #10662 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub still WIP

• Nicolas

• Gabriel

• Julius

• Ongoing work to improve mentions by Elizabeth feat: Add user label to mention by elzody · Pull Request #10556 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub

• Implement startPresentation parameter feat: `startPresentation` URL parameter by elzody · Pull Request #4209 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub

  • Esc key seem to don’t work at all in this case

• Pending bug fix for federated share

• Bug fix for PDF files (mostly cosmetic)

• Mike D

  • Just observing

• Thorsten

  • [No update]

• Banobe

  • Cypress: had issues with the default cypress timeout (due to slow vm)
    • Also learnt about browsersync (allows to keep developing without restarting the server)
      • Szymon now has fixed that →browsersync: fix paths by eszkadev · Pull Request #10663 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  • First PR got merge on improving the following user popup
  • Next looking at combox buttons UI: combobox hover effect · Issue #10636 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub

• Attila

• merged the collecting command usage information.
  Maybe there will be some fine tune later

• Extract and transform API → insert slide into presentations.
  Made some working slide insertion, and some text rewrite capability, still make it better.

• Checking the empty page problem at transform contentcontrol.

• Andras

  • fixed automake warnings

• Szymon

• Improving TreeView widget

  • working on context menu for tree view
  • already have foundations merged to core in RED
  • is visible on screen but still requires some polish and correct position

• Error on “next” / ”previous” in tracked changes

• Fixed view jump in calc when comment is present and we recover from idle

• Fixed view jumping in Writer, we had a cursor update in tile rendering code happening (what could be triggered by other user)

• Update for Browsersync (tool for live-editing CSS/JS without restart of the server)

• Darshan

  • PR:

    • Disable “Presenter Console” option when “Present in Window” is clicked #10653 Disable "Presenter Console" option when "Present in Window" is clicked by Darshan-upadhyay1110 · Pull Request #10653 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
    • WIP: Presenter Console when exit from thumbnails view the next slide is not updated
    • WIP: Type error fix for Presenter console
    • Presenter console: Pop window tries to open an edit window instead of presenter console window (after unblocking pop ups in browser) => in Firefox

• Aron

  * nothing to add
  

• Caolan

• Working on some autotext and configuration features

• Auto committed Watchdog profiles

  • profiles/watchdog at co-24.04 · caolanm/profiles · GitHub

• Vivek

• Created iFrame for user-setting /Admin-setting

• Currently Working to make Auth with NextCloud

  • Problem : Wopi auth token generated based on FileId/Path
    • Solution suggest by Szymon: Maybe we can create fake Path for UserId and create auth token, We need to change bit code of how we generate token for this case. [Working on it]

• Bayram

• (To Review) - Enhancement - Show “Delete contents” info when using auto-fill for deleting cells (GH#9913) : Show "Delete contents" info when using auto-fill for deleting cells · Issue #9913 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub

  • core1: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/175827 (Merged - 24.04)
  • core2: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/176557 (Merged - 24.04)
  • core3: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/176565 (To Review - 24.04)

• Skyler

• Mobile releases released!

  • Will not release again in December, so we’ll have our next mobile release in 2025.

• Video placeholder size … still looking at it, still not sure what’s going wrong.

• Touchscreen tooltips (should not be shown)

  • Looking at this, the code seems like it was meant to add only a single tooltip listener but has since been used to add multiple listeners … which I theorise is stopping some tooltip open events getting to the right place…

• Pranam

  • Imroving interoperability to import formulas from MSO
  • Fixing some async dialogues freezing new users joining

• Gökay

Continues:

• Various bug fixes & reviews.

  • Some small bugs in master branch.

• Copy text with comments issue: Fixed.

• Copy – paste operations.

• Hubert

  • postmessage to hide a whole tab in the notebook bar – MERGED - PostMessage: added Show/Hide_NotebookTab by hfiguiere · Pull Request #10624 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  • Some doc updates.
  • Some improvements to the debug frame.
  • Still in progress: WordPress connector.
    • WiP repo location GitHub - hfiguiere/collabora-wordpress: Wordpress Plugin for Collabora Online

• Gulsah

• Excel fails to open a number of sample spreadsheets roundtripped to XLSX

  • Master: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/177222 (merged)
  • co-24.04: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/177016 (merged)
  • co-23.05: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/177476 (merged)

• Autofill: the selection color doesn’t get reset when user dismisses the context menu

  • Fixed: Reset autofill mark on close autofill context menu by GulsahKose · Pull Request #10631 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub (merged)

• Some impress tickets are tested.

• Add new status to status bar for the Show all comments

  • in progress

• Next:

  • Fix the comment sign ratio on zoom

• Timur @Anna

• Just observing.

• Méven

  • Add css to context menu entries to allow css tweaking #10351 IN REVIEW
  • Working on Wopi connection check #9202

• Chris

  • Fix for intermittent searchbar-spec test failure #10585
  • Follow up on the 0 size canvas that some integrators seems to have (Nextcloud) #10612
  • Working on tweaking #10509

• Nick

  • Correctly receiving jsdialog online now, and have basic navigator working now
    • WIP: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172594/2
    • WIP: Detach navigator from sidebar by NickWingate · Pull Request #9933 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
    • Need to:
      • Create open/close button
      • Fix navigator closing
      • Combine with slide sorter for impress
  • Back at university now so will have less time for collabora

• Rashesh

  • new address input field added to calc which adds ability to create named ranges
  • working on @mention
    • Mention issues: PostMessage is only sent once. Keyboard doesn't work · Issue #10047 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub & Mention users in shared documents · Issue #7923 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
    • Debounce mention user query by Rash419 · Pull Request #10273 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  • Filed a nextcloud issue regarding mention: Mention notification request fails with 500 status code · Issue #4169 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub
    • fix: get user by display name by elzody · Pull Request #4171 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub → still not in
  • Impress: Make master slides import from templates folder available for use in the sidebar · Issue #4276 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub → discussion aroundMaster slides import from templates folder

Events

FOSDEM dev-room: LibreOffice Technology

• FOSDEM 2025: LibreOffice Technology DevRoom Call for Papers - The Document Foundation Blog
• Deadline 1st December → this week.
• Talks:
  • COOL UI / UX command tracking & analysis (Attila)
  • Nextcloud Office built on COOL & LibreOffice Technology (Julius/Elizabeth)
  • Improved comments & mentions (Pranam)
  • LibreOffice Technology atomic / threading improvements (Caolan)
  • Optimizing AutoText & settings for multi-tenant collaboration (Caolan)
  • COOL – LibreOffice Technology in the browser (Michael)
  • Automatic Documents, packed with content & signed (Michael)
  • Beautiful remote web dialog widgets built on LOT (Szymon)
  • New, shiny WebGL presentations in the browser - presenter console + animations (Szymon)
  • COOL / Mobile LibreOffice Technology (Skyler)

LibreOffice Conference 2024 (Recap):

• Michael : Building a successful Open Source business around LibreOffice – LibreOffice Conference 2024
  • Unleash the power of Collabora Online
  • Collabora keynote
• Attila: improved Fontwork Text Placement – LibreOffice Conference 2024
• Skyler: Implementing STYLEREF: a journey in compatibility
• Justin: Bug for Bug: layoutInCell interoperability
• Pranam: Conditional Formatting dialog cleanup
• Caolan Spreadsheet Parallel Optimizations
• Tomaz PDF Annotations in LibreOffice Draw
• Miklos: Meet the Engineering Steering Committee (ESC)

Forum Topics

• Top forum topics from last week:
  • Question regarding the -t switch usage in the docker run command Question regarding the -t switch usage in the `docker run` command
  • CODE : How enable track change on CODE by default CODE : How enable track change on CODE by default
  • Collabora Office won’t open password protected documents Collabora Office won't open password protected documents => User updated that with new version this bug got fixed
  • Weblate stats: November 2024 Weblate stats: November 2024
  • New feature Friday post : Unlock the Power of Sheet Protection in Collabora Online! Unlock the Power of Sheet Protection in Collabora Online!

Next meeting

• 12/12/2024