Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #201

[darshan]

Date: 16/1/2025

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

Attendees (write your name):

• Hub, Skyler, Darshan, Pedro, Banobe, Bayram, Attila, Méven, Andras, Szymon, Caolán, Ezinne, Anna, Gulsah, Elliot

Testing

Files – ( password is coolmeeting)

• Calc - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/5F4gFxNPW8mNA4b

• Writer - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/a9MR8xccmffYNE2

  • Writer: Scrolling with keyboard:

    • Document zoom at 40%/UI at 100%; ctrl + home; PageDown; PageDown; → check status bar’s page indicator. Some users in compact mode others in tabbed view and at least one with a 1000X600 sized window

      • Private link https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/f/268466

      • Public link https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/rpxQZp5kR4TwRad

• Impress - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/J5aqpBzRr6WfWfd

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

  • [Application] [Requester]: what to test

1. Release Schedule

• CODE 24.04.11.3 Today (hot fix for http::Session::callOnConnectFail crash

• Next CODE 24.04.12.1 CODE Red Next week (23 Jan)

• Collabora Office 24.04.12 Next Week

• 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 https://github.com/orgs/CollaboraOnline/projects/3/views/2 now 3, one waiting for CI, 1 with conflicts

  • Gokay’s PR has passed all tests but in need for a review: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10945

• Nicolas

• Gabriel

• Julius

• Ongoing work to improve mentions by Elizabeth https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10556

• Implement startPresentation parameter https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/pull/4209

  • 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)

• Thorsten

  • [No update]

• Banobe

  • Working on feedback from algining comments indicator and hover status in Writer|Draw|Impress

- Left with disabling hover for child comments though they have no attribute or class when root comment is expanded

https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10901

• Still working on UX experience for server audit dialog (implementing better approach to show the indicators and statuses and ) https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10925

• Ankush

  • Actively working on Collabora and were active on Telegram

  • Around UI

  • Nextcloud setup

    • looking at the sdk documentation

    • Not able to pass the css vars by following https://sdk.collaboraonline.com/docs/theming.html

      • will create an issue for that

    • I have noticed some bugs while

      • When hiding columns in calc (via python → UNO command)

      • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues

    • Anuksh asked about css var bot getting override from nextcloud. Here is the list which you can check from nextcloud document https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/developer_manual/html_css_design/css.html#css-variables

      • also all the coolPrameter passed from richdocument are mentioned in this file => https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/blob/main/src/helpers/coolParameters.js#L50

• Attila

• Extract and transform API → insert slide into presentations
  Merged the PR. Writing documentations. (almost finished).
  Progressed with formatted text transform capability… made some commands to select text part of an SdrTextObject, and manipulate it… append text, change format…

• UI Log Checked generated Log, found a problem that this log file deleted frequently… have to find a way to make it survive.
  Fixed small bug in the reporting scripts.

• Andras

  • working on hyphenation in the docker, which is surprisingly missing

• Szymon

• Improving TreeView widget

  • “sortable” property https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10870

  • multi-selection in calc aggregation function in statusbar (showing if set in core, but not multiselecting possibility by user yet): https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10867

  • cypress tests added:

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10844

• Working on search issues, mainly in Calc, added more complex testing in cypress

• Darshan

  • PR:

    • Avoid redundant getpresentationinfo call when &startPresentation=true parameter is used https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10943

    • Convert ruler file into typescript #10948 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10948

    • Add event listeners for click and Enter key, and set tabIndex for accessibility #10924 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10924

    • Add “Print” option in menubar for readonly mode in all app https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10940

• Elliot

  • Working on improving output from UI commands logged

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10937 - merged

      • Data from UI commands log are now being written into tables in a calc file

      • Table’s are automatically charted

      • Add new stats based upon what already existed in the script

      • Working on fixing some code issues + recording new stats like what proportion of an session is spent typing (interactive) + average typing rate

• Aron

  • nothing to add

• Caolan

• still working on some autotext and configuration features

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10933 (not ready for review yet)

  • but green in ci, more upload work to complete

  • release configuration-mode cache dir to be adjusted

• attempt to fix UnitKitSyntheticLok unit test failure

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10922 (merged)

• change to get a better backtrace if saving stalls

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10908 (merged)

• Auto committed Watchdog profiles

  • https://github.com/caolanm/profiles/tree/co-24.04/watchdog

• Vivek

  • Created iFrame for user-setting /Admin-setting

    • File uploading on AppData – Done

      • PR: https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/pull/4373

    • Wrote file upload wopi routes

      • Facing issue, Network call not happened to nextcloud wopi – getting 400 error

        • Wondering Is there any special way are we calling to wopi server except HTTP/ HTTP headers

• Bayram

• (In progress) - Scroll issues with toolbar and statusbar on LTR and RTL docs - https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/10942

  • PR: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10944

  • fixed “this._RTL always returns undefined” issue. scroll buttons are now correctly visible/hidden when scrolling horizontally with right/left scroll buttons.

  • TODO

    • scroll-right buttons’ arrows are not aligned well (RTL Docs)

    • Scrolling toolbar and statusbar with Shift + mouseWheelUp/Down does not hide/show the scroll right/left buttons correctly. Therefore right/left buttons overlap with other elements (LTR Docs)

• (To Review) - Calc: remove unused FormulaTooltip functions #10947

  • PR: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10947

• (Closed) - Cursor Requires Double-Click to Activate After Moving a Column with Formulas

  • PR: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10784 (Merged)

• Skyler

• Worked on coordinates all this week- made some minor changes but ultimately realized my goal was already covered with SimplePoint and SimpleRectangle

  • Started looking at converting stuff to SimplePoint and SimpleRectangle – have a bit of stuff that looks to convert _getZoomDocPos which is my main “problem functinon” but after the conversion there is jumping on zoom and I’m not wholly sure why…

• Now looking at zoom jumping again

• Also taking a look at videos to see if they would be viable to sneak into this month’s mobile release

• Pranam

• Improving interoperability to import formulas from MSO

• Fixing some async dialogues freezing new users joining

• Gökay

Continues:

• Various bug fixes & reviews:

  • Calc: Column selection issue and tile position after zoom.

• Pending: Tile rendering on Notes view mode.

• Hubert

  • WordPress connector available (still considered pre-release)

    • https://wordpress.org/plugins/collabora-online/

  • Some SDK documentation updates

• Gulsah

  • Excel fails to open a number of sample XLS spreadsheets exported to XLSX (TDF#164141)

    • XLS to XLSX we have missing sections to export for the command button form control.

    • I am trying to fix…

    • Working on a patch for that

  • Next: Add Column/Row Highlight Toggle to online

• Timur @Anna

• Just observing.

• Méven

  • reviewed &startPresentation in impress not working, credit to Darshan

  • working on adding more ui configuration conf

• Chris

  • Working on scroll performance/behaviour

    • Previous week: PR #10509 (animated scroll wheel patch on top of gokay’s work)

      • Possible regressions scrolling in slides text areas(?)

    • PR #10746 for review (anchor annotations to scroll position)

    • Opened and working on issue #10748 (annotation performance)

• Nick

  • Correctly receiving jsdialog online now, and have basic navigator working now

    • WIP: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172594/2

    • WIP: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/9933

    • 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

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/10047 & https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/7923

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10273

  • Filed a nextcloud issue regarding mention: https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues/4169

    • https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/pull/4171 → still not in

  • https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues/4276 → discussion aroundMaster slides import from templates folder

Events

FOSDEM-2025 dev-room: LibreOffice Technology

• Talks: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/libreoffice/

  • COOL UI / UX command tracking & analysis (Attila)

  • Nextcloud Office built on COOL & LibreOffice Technology (Julius)

  • 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)

Forum Topics

• Top forum topics from last week:

  • Collabora automatically adds port number after URL https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-automatically-adds-port-number-after-url/3093

  • Collabora adds port to my domain url on nextcloud https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-adds-port-to-my-domain-url-on-nextcloud/3316

  • Installation configs for Collabora with Nextcloud without Reverse Proxy https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/installation-configs-for-collabora-with-nextcloud-without-reverse-proxy/3135/7

  • Feature Friday :

    • Collaboration Features in Collabora Online #FeatureFriday https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collaboration-features-in-collabora-online-featurefriday/3308

Next meeting

• 23/01/2025