Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #216

[darshan]

Date: 01/05/2025

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/KRxygZoD8XGjeNR

• Calc - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/Ttqz24cfezCcNYn

• Impress - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/tGjwNZf3WMfZpx2

• 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

• 25.04 is released now

  • working on fixing known issues.

• Mobile release: released 24.04.13 → next release should be in ~1 month!

• 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 (Resumed still in progress)

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

  • Manage changes dialog alignments (Merged)=> Thanks

  • Remove unused attribution css (Merged)

  • Started working on Feedback back dialog

    - Currently on installation and setup of mysql and django configurations

• Attila

• Extended Chart Styles: (chart text formatting from sidebar).
  Made it merged. (fixed some more things like grow/shrink button now effect differently the text)
  Found a way to make gont sidebar work on titles in edit mode.. (not by forwarding uno commands, but directly call EditView setattribs), but it still not finished. Found a problem about chart→sidabar way, as font sidebar is not updating when editview selection is changed, but I still try to find a way to make it work.

• 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:

    • Manage Changes Filter date/time picker needs alignment #11751 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11751

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11768

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11781

    • WIP working on missing activation code for accessibility

• 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) - Footer not seen on fileopen

• (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.

  • “Use dynamic spacing” and “AutoFit height” settings are not applied during import. (Format → Page Style → Header) → in progress

• Skyler

• Memory leak in slideshows

  • Szymon’s version of this is still not reproducible for me

• Touch movement is not working properly, I’ve found one responsible commit but it looks like there are probably 2 problems…

  • Freezing bisected to https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/commit/c596c6b3aba5a6595001bb5b132b18e9c5776496

  • Not yet bisected the extreme acceleration … hoping to do that today

• A couple of 25.04 mobile crash/regression fixes…

  • 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 and merged

      • 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

      • All sub dialogs are fixed too: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/184765

  • [Writer] Find and Replace option Comments should select found word

    • I started to work on it.

• Timur @Anna

• Just observing.

• Méven

  • investigating paragraph format lose

  • improvement to “make run” output https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11805

• 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)

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

    • Merged: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11745 (Backport 11463: Enable tooltip for style list in 24.04)

    • Working on browser accessibility to add alt text for non text content and also add tooltips

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

Github

• Tasks up for grab:

  • Replace jQuery Selectors with getElementById() for ID-Based Lookups #11754 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/11754

  • Replace jQuery with JavaScript #11753 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/11753

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

Forum Topics

• Top forum topics from last week:

  • In the writer, when the search keyword contains multiple spaces, it cannot be searched https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/in-the-writer-when-the-search-keyword-contains-multiple-spaces-it-cannot-be-searched/3627

  • Collabora CODE not working with some users? https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-code-not-working-with-some-users/3628

  • Feature Friday Post : Styles Sidebar with Spotlight in Collabora Online #FeatureFriday https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/styles-sidebar-with-spotlight-in-collabora-online-featurefriday/3640

  • CODE 25.04 Release https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/code-25-04-release/

  • https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/introducing-collabora-online-development-edition-code-25-04/3641

Announcement:

• CODE 25.04 Release https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/code-25-04-release/
  https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/introducing-collabora-online-development-edition-code-25-04/3641

Next meeting

• 08/05/2025