Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #214

[darshan]

Date: 10/04/2025

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

Attendees (write your name):

• Ezinne, Darshan, Pedro, Bayram, Ezinne, Gulsah, João, Timur, Anna, Szymon, Attila

Testing

Files – ( password is coolmeeting)

Staging-perf

• Writer - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/HLf3EwtesAXywFx

• Calc - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/MgRJTpWyyy2qsyw

• Impress - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/TXSKq8CctDdJ5n5

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

  • [Application] [Requester]: what to test

1. Release Schedule

   1. 24.04 Forever Green

• 24.04.13.2 Released

• 24.04.13.3 to be released next week.

  • Regression patches should be reverted

  • tested properly and then released

25.04.1. Planned In the middle of April (17 April)

• blocker issues need to be fixed.

• Mobile release: released 24.04.12 → next release should be in ~1 month!

  • Builds are currently in testing, Skyler expects to be able to release this week if not next week Skyler is out

  • Apple support: work around that lets Ezinne to test builds

• Andras; we just got a crash in .eu I will look into that

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

• PRs without reviewer https://gitub.com/orgs/CollaboraOnline/projects/3/views/2 now 4

• Nicolas

• Gabriel

• Julius

• Thorsten

  • [No update]

• Banobe

  • Enhance the status bar experience: Keep key controls visible (Merged!)

  • Browser Accessibility on Form elements (in Progress)

    - Fixed for elements with more than 2 cols, tested this on dailogs (Paragraph, Character, Page, sidebar)

    - Now Fixing for cols that are more than 3.

    - Some elements are set with (grid-auto-column) so these are still misaligned but will get done today

    - Also writing some custom css for other elements as adjusting the grid cols doesn’t completely fix them.

  • Dark-mode and Light mode backgrounds are not syncing well in document canvas (In progress)

    - Still going through some changes from Core about document canvas

• Attila

• Extended Chart Styles: working on making chart text formatting from sidebar.
  Made subscript/superscript,Spacing work in case of title.
  Mad the font panel appear only is axis/legends/labels/title is selected, and hide/show some buttons if it is supported or not.
  Made combobox selection work in case of underline, and spacing. (Color still not work), thez had a different uno command dispatching

• Andras

  • Images (core bug https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166005 ): blue and green were swapped → now fixed and merged

• Szymon

• worked on PPTX textbox content autosaving (on exit) – in progress

  • merged

• testing, review some of tile update fixes from Gokay

• cypress fixing

• JSDialog optimization – requestAnimationFrame sync

• Darshan

  • PR:

    • Add label “25.04” for any new issue report on github #11557 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/commit/7a080091be30be5fe8bc0887a7e40c0d3c92b5a9

    • Fix ruler not visible on navigation sidebar open #11536

      • Remove ruler.js as not needed anymore

      • Add missing border top for vertical ruler

      • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11536

    • maintain fedora build instructions for cool. => Thanks szymon https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/10488#issuecomment-2518962019
      - https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/CollaboraOnline.github.io/pull/142 => Merged

    • Easy hack

      • Improve clipboard support in Audit dialog by checking for navigator.clipboard https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/11589

      • Consolidate Sidebar and Navigator Panel Styles #11513 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/11513 => assigned to codewithketan

• Aron

  • nothing to add

• Caolan

• Some work underway for memory optimizations

  • https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/181513 merged

• Working on a similar memory optimization to preload typedetection data

• Auto committed Watchdog profiles

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

• Auto committed copy-on-write/do_wp_pagege profiles

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

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

• Vivek

  • Setting Iframe with Integrator

    • https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/pull/4461 → Ready to merge.

  • Wordbook Iframe flow

    • setting: allow wordbook to edit and remove words from wordbook (https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11172) → Merged

    • handle large wordbook file with Web Worker (https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11199) → In Review

    • Doing some POC about optimization . Need discussion with Pedro/Szymon.

      • Can we discuss this after this meeting? @Vivek @szyklos ?

      • Vivek: sure

• Bayram

• (In Progress) - Saved DOCX is restricted in MSO

  • <w:documentProtection w:edit=“forms” w:enforcement=“0”/>

  • attribute: enforcement (Enforce Document Protection Settings) → Specifies if the document protection settings shall be enforced for a given WordprocessingML document.

  • When adding w:enforcement=“0” attribute to the documentProtection element, the protection/restriction issue is no longer exist (on the exported/saved doc on LO).

  • That means, LO does not import w:enforcement=“0” attr. (as a result, LO does not export it too) → Now: preparing a patch for this…

• Skyler

• Video on iOS

  • Build up on testflight → will be in the next release

• Video on Android

  • CI has now passed → Waiting on a review (from Szymon?)

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11432

• Multimedia size

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11366 → ready for review here

  • Figured out why this was breaking – will be a core patch and probably worth making as a followup to this PR

• 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

  • ColorPalette widget show color names

    • Currently working on this

  • I ported my core patches to master.

  • Create contextual Notebookbar tab and compact mode drop-down for formula editing

    • Notebookbar items are ok.

    • Remaining part: Compact view items

      • Discussed with Szymon. I’ll turn back here again.

  • Make equation font dialogs async

    • 4 dilaog fixed: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/183720

      • There are sub dialogs to convert async

  • Formula Menu Option: Split causes a crash

    • Fixed: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/183786

• Timur @Anna

• Just observing.

• Méven

  • Small postMessage improvement for Hide/show Menu_Item Command and Button errors: #11486

• Chris

  • Working on scroll performance/behaviour

    • PR #10772 landed (anchor annotations to scroll position/comment optimisation)

    • PR #11044 opened (sidebar animation performance)

  • Next:

    • Look at #10968 (Preload tiles more intelligently)

    • Look at scrolling performance on 4k/hidpi monitors in Firefox

    • Add possible jQuery-related easy-fix issues to GitHub

• 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 around Master slides import from templates folder

• Parth

  • Setup Collabora Online

    • Core building

    • Issue with AppArmor

      • Action Item for Parth : To push a PR against the .io website to it includes tips for Ubuntu on AppArmor

      • https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-23-10-restricted-unprivileged-user-namespaces

    • Created a PR containing troubleshooting steps: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/CollaboraOnline.github.io/pull/141

    • Widget-treeview https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11463

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11500

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

Forum Topics

• Top forum topics from last week:

  • CSP:

    • From version 24.12.4.1 onwards CSP directives in coolwsd.xml are being ignored https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/from-version-24-12-4-1-onwards-csp-directives-in-coolwsd-xml-are-being-ignored/3567

      • wsd: Set window.frameAncestors with the CSP directive #11433 => Thanks Hub

    • Collabora Online host determination problem? https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-host-determination-problem/3572

    • Limitation: How to convert Powerpoint to png with pointed slide not the first on restapi https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/how-to-convert-powerpoint-to-png-with-pointed-slide-not-the-first-on-restapi/3575

    • Translation stats update:

      • Weblate stats: March 2025 https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/weblate-stats-march-2025/3583

      • Weblate stats: February 2025 https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/weblate-stats-february-2025/3584

Announcement:

• COOL Community Sticker Contest https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/community-sticker-contest/

Next meeting

• 17/04/2025