Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #215

[darshan]

Date: 24/04/2025

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

Attendees (write your name):

• Ezinne, Skyler, Darshan, Pedro, Banobe, Bayram, Méven, Ezinne, Gulsah, Parth, João,

  Anna, Szymon, Attila

Testing

Files – ( password is coolmeeting)

Staging-perf

• Writer - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/nGADYqZWWZ94riK

• Calc - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/xbMaDpDmsHxoPc6

• Impress - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/NwJwcbFeXSDcMY7

• 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, most probably next week

• Working on Bugs

• Performance looks better

• Mobile release: released 24.04.13 → 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 2

• Nicolas

• Gabriel

• Julius

• Thorsten

  • [No update]

• Banobe

  • Browser Accessibility on Form elements (Still in draft)

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

  • Reviewing changes from Henry on accessibility (In Review)

• Attila

• Extended Chart Styles: (chart text formatting from sidebar).
  Disabled font panel if the title is in edit mode. This way it does not make issues, and it can be implemented later.
  Comboboxes work fine now, and made it work in Cool too.
  Finalised the code moved to 25.04 and made a PR right now.

• Andras

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

• Szymon

• JSDialog optimization – requestAnimationFrame sync

  • merged, testing fixed regression in idle popup and snackbar

  • fade in animation for complex dialogs to hide loading of widgets in the menatime

• Found problem with slideshow memory usage when playing videos

• CURRENT: fixing accessibility sidebar

• Darshan

  • PR:

    • Improve keyboard navigation: add Shift+Tab support with cyclic focus behavior #11731 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11731

    • Added toggle expander state with aria-expanded for a11y #11655 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11655

    • add accessibility info box for floating nav icon #11653 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11653

• 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) - Field not seen on DOCX fileopen

  • tdf#166205 : https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166205

  • there are some issues on header height during import from Word docs.

• (Closed) - Saved DOCX is restricted in MSO

  • tdf#166173: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166173

  • core1: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/184042 (Merged)

  • core2: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/184196 (Merged)

• Skyler

• Video on iOS & Video on Android

  • Merged and released!

• Multimedia size

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11366 → merged

• Memory leak in slideshows

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11726

  • Fixes the problem for me, but doesn’t for Szymon so presumably there is more than 1 memory leak…

• Not all fonts being selectable in iOS

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11715 → merged!

• Pause videos when presenting

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11684 → Vivek said the code looks good, but waiting for a review from Marco

• Clipboard not working in Safari Mobile Web

  • due to us doing stuff before `navigator.clipboard.write` … but we can defer it

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11668 → waiting for review

• Playback controls

  • You wanted to play video in a presentation? *You* couldn’t, because it would just play when it was merged… now you can click to play/pause. So that’s nice

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11695 → merged

  • While testing, Szymon noticed a memory leak in slideshows… so looking at that

• A couple of 25.04 mobile crash/regression fixes…

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11702 → merged

  • https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/184439 → will get Noel to review when CI passes

  • https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/184445 → will get Noel to review when CI passes

• 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 as tooltip

    • Fixed (waiting the CI)

      • core: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/184285

      • online: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11666

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

    • Notebookbar items are ok.

    • Remaining part: Compact view items . discussed with Szymon.

      • He suggested to look attachFrame about not automatically enabled compact view items but couldn’t find the way.

  • Make equation font dialogs async

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

      • There are sub dialogs to convert async (Currently working on them)

• Timur @Anna

• Just observing.

• Méven

  • investigating paragraph format lose https://phabricator.collabora.com/T57301

• 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

    • Merged: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11618 (Add check for tooltip text before setting attribute)

    • In review: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11500 (anonymization of user name and doc. Name where missing)

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:

  • Avoid translation of formula names in Calc when the UI language is not English https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/avoid-translation-of-formula-names-in-calc-when-the-ui-language-is-not-english/1611

  • Need help with this connection 0% https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/need-help-with-this-connection-0/3587/5 => A chrome plug-in issue (Fixed it by removing a plug-in )

  • Can’t save to Proton Drive https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/cant-save-to-proton-drive/3603

  • Pending topics I need chase

    • Collabora & Nextcloud → HTTPS & Local Domains & Arambian & NanoPi R4S ARM64 https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-nextcloud-https-local-domains-arambian-nanopi-r4s-arm64/3606/1

    • Nextcloud integration not working - Unknow resource in Collabora log https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/nextcloud-integration-not-working-unknow-resource-in-collabora-log/3617/1

Announcement:

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

Next meeting

• 01/05/2025