Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #203

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Date: 23/1/2025

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)

• Writer - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/QY37beDD6jfP4MR

• Calc - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/53cL8e9dQQTyLbq

• Impress - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/JY9KAP54pMbxmWo

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

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1. Release Schedule

• CODE 24.04.12.1 CODE Red this week today/tomorrow (23 Jan)

• Collabora Office 24.04.12 Next Week

• Mobile

  • iOS app 24.04.11 to be released next week

  • Android app 24.04.11 to released next week

• 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 1 PR,

• 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

  • Still working on UX experience for server audit dialog (implementing better approach to show the indicators and statuses )

    - Waiting on review for alignments https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10925

    - Will Push second PR that improves the status indicator and create a new darkmode icon

  • Improving alignments on number of elements being passed in UI Dialog (Page Style: Default)

  • Fixing double click bug on elements (buttons) in UI Dialog (Page Style: Default)

• 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
  Finished the documentation.
  Found a problem that some JSON is not valid JSON, but it works… probably I will have to change it later.

• UI Logging:
  UI log file is not deleted anymore… just an other path needed, turned on duration logging, needed for char/sec statistics for users.
  Fixed a reordering problem, when same kit-id was used …
  Fixed a problem that some uno command parameter was found a way to the log… (unocommand?param=value)
  made some report like things from 5day long log form servers… tried to make charts better… logarithimic scaling

• Andras

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

    • https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/180337 → fix merged

    • It is already in red coded 24.04.12.

• Szymon

• on vacation last week

• Improving TreeView widget

  • added style previews draft PR and gerrit changes https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10990

  • autofilter by date – checkbox fix so it doesn’t toggle on entry selection

    https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10991

• Search feature bugs here and there - fixed

• Darshan

  • PR:

    • Presenter console: fix disable button for single slide & some improvements on PC close #10989 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10989

    • Gitpod fixes https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10985

    • Add tiny scrollbar for stylepreview in notebookbar https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10950

    • Add null safety check for controlPosition initialization https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10987

    • [Pedro] I have noticed that ; you hover above the slide sorter button or the notes and just after that the border-radius style is applied

• 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

        • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10958 new features and fixes got in

• Aron

  • nothing to add

• Caolan

• still working on some autotext and configuration features

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10933

  • release configuration-mode cache dir to be adjusted (done)

  • in review now

• 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

      • PR: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/50145

      • Julius posted some requested changes

    • 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

• (To Review) - 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

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

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

• Back to work on Power Query

  • now: compare excel and calc to detect the missing parts

• Skyler

• Largely looked at the zoom view jumping… I have a thing! It’s not perfect and can’t be merged yet (because I suspect it doesn’t work outside of calc) but once that’s done I’ll get it up!

  • Will continue working on this to make it actually Perfect but think it’s important to get something in

• 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

  • no 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.

    • Sent a patch: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/180414

    • Szymon asked to add a test

    • I’ll update.

  • Add Column/Row Highlight Toggle to online

    • Mostly worked on this. I’m about to complete.

• Timur @Anna

• Just observing.

• Méven

  • No update

• 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 → merged

  • 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:

  • DeepL Integration removes text to be translated https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/deepl-integration-removes-text-to-be-translated/3341

  • From 24.04.10.1.1 + can’t start collabora docker: [ coolwsd ] FTL Failed to initialize COOLWSD: Bad URI syntax: bad or invalid port number: 443 https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/from-24-04-10-1-1-cant-start-collabora-docker-coolwsd-ftl-failed-to-initialize-coolwsd-bad-uri-syntax-bad-or-invalid-port-number-443/3339/2

  • iPad Air, Nextcloud, richdocuments → mark/copy&paste https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/10820

  • Excel search result cursor selection error, when merging cells https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/10970

Next meeting

• 30/01/2025