Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #207

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Date: 20/2/2025

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

Attendees (write your name):

  • Skyler, Darshan, Pedro, Banobe, Bayram, Méven, Ezinne, Gulsah, Vivek, Joao, Timur,

Testing

Files – ( password is coolmeeting)

Staging-pef

Share:

  1. Release Schedule

  • Getting ready to release CODE 24.04.12-4

    • Probably will go out today or tomorrow

  • Mobile release: no updates

  • 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 5 (but still not passing CI) => Attention needed form Szymon and Caolan

  • 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

    • Improving Style List Sidebar (In Test)

      • - Rename “Spotlight” to “Highlight styles” (Merged)

        - Align Highlight checkbox for visual consistency (Merged)

        - Bug: Alignment issues on lower resolutions

  • Impress: fix navigator sidebar icon missing width and height (Merged)

  • Add autocomplete=“off” to visible inputs to improve performance. (Merged)

  • Status bar: hide on/off indicators if they are in default mode (In Progress)

  • UX analysis and usability (in Progress)

  • Attila

  • Extract and transform API → insert slide into presentations
    JSON validity fix merged.
    Finished documentation (JSON + text formatting) … I have to fix some review issues

  • UI Logging:

    finished/mered charts for save/load logging … there is 5 chart
    once we will get some more real data we can finetune the charts / tables

  • Andras

    • no update

  • Szymon

  • reduce duplicated rendering of some tiles

  • quicker dark mode switch – no cache cleanup

  • not lose focus in search input – when found result is hyperlink in footer

  • following stops on scrollbar – fixed

  • next: following doesn’t stop on typing in formulabar

  • Darshan

  • Aron

    • nothing to add

  • Caolan

  • Some work underway for memory optimization

  • Working on a similar memory optimization to preload typedetection data

  • Auto committed Watchdog profiles

  • Auto committed copy-on-write/do_wp_pagege profiles

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11146

  • Vivek

  • Bayram

  • (In Progress) - Calc_: Pivot tables altered when file is round-tripped from ods to xlsx

    • core: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/181795 (Merged - core/master)

    • export and (ODS → XLSX) (with a unit test)

    • this will fix “Cannot determine which PivotTable field to sort by” warning on Excel and “loss of functions” → tdf#123225 → and there will be no need to “refresh” pivot tables on Excel

    • Now: checking why some ODS docs with pivot table, fails to open in Excel (after converting to .xlsx) (Excel says the file is corrupted)

  • Skyler

  • Looked at iOS documents not loading from some sources

    • turns out that it was due to those apps only opening in quick-look… for which we do not have a provider

  • Looking now at making video work in the iOS app

    • have several prototypes that load the whole video at once

    • now looking to implement the range header in one of my prototypes so I can play longer videos

      • am using WKURLScheme so am able to get headers

      • …unfortunately Android will need to be fixed separately for this…

    • (12s videos work fine in prototypes, 5 minute videos do not)

  • Tested Szymon’s patch (https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11134) to fix double-rendering on Android → vastly improved speeds for some documents, although can still be slow

  • Pranam

  • Improving interoperability to import formulas from MSO

  • Fixing some async dialogues freezing new users joining

  • Gökay

Continues:

Events

COOL Days 2025 - 2nd - 4th June - Budapest, Hungry https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/cool-days-2025-2nd-4th-june-budapest-hungry-collabora-office-and-collabora-online/3396/4

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