Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #225

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Date: 10/07/2025

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

Attendees (write your name):

Ezinne, Skyler, Darshan, Pedro, Banobe, Bayram, Méven, Gulsah, Parth, João, Attila, , Hub, Szymon, Luna Jernberg, Samuel Richard Anna

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

    • [Following Feature (mostly following the editor)] [the person who asked]: what to test
  1. Release Schedule

  • 25.04.3.2 is released

  • 25.04.4.1 Red Code (in second week) To be released next week.

    • Calc: offset with multiple users

      • Calc: Text (“blinking”) cursor

        • The text gets offset

      • Calc: Zoom in/out

      • Writer: not able to reproduce the inexistent text

  • Mobile release: submitting to Apple/Google for approval today, expected release tomorrow

  • 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 4

  • Salim

  • Sarper

    • Working local setup + Just listening in

  • Samuel

    • Build almost works

  • Richard B.

    • Just watching

  • Nicolas

  • Gabriel

  • Julius

  • Thorsten

    • [No update]

  • Banobe

    • Calc – dropdown menus offset with Zoom (Draft)

      - Passed on to Gokay => Care changes needed

    • Impress: Restructure layout tab buttons and relocate “Interaction” (Merged)

    • Impress: Add slide size to layout contexual tabs (In Review)

    • Add cypress visual test for menubutton in impress sidebar (Merged)

    • Tweak More button icon (In progress)

      - Designing new button

  • Attila

  • Extended Chart Styles: (Support font style themes, with customizable text element assignment).
    Improved the iconview chart pictures, now the listed chart styles are rendered on a cloned chart, so the original will not change … found a way to make its render faster (CompleteRedraw ), but the ChartView::update() still slow. (I still try to find a way to fasten it)
    Implemented its work, so clicking on an image will change the chart to that sytle ..
    Made a listbox on the popup to choose the way it works.. save chart style to theme.. or load the theme to the chart. However I plan to move this into a dialog box, and leave only theme→chart way on the sidebar, and a button with save chart style to new theme.

  • Andras

  • Szymon

  • Blocked calc on right-click in navigator

  • ZSTD slideshow as experimental feature

  • Review and merging UI rework PRs

  • Updated old style previews in sidebar

  • Starting working on folding the notebookbar into dropdowns

  • Darshan

  • Aron

    • nothing to add

  • Caolan

  • Vivek

    • Impress Perf Improvements

    • fallback to 2D canvas when WebGL2 performance is insufficient

      • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12162

      • Idea: Should we show warning dialogs/model for one time if we move them to 2d canvas?

        • Possible Problem: 1) Browser Accelerator off 2) Hardware Accelerator Off 3) Hardware is not compatible – Can’t do much :slight_smile:

          • Joao: could be useful. So, user can understand that it’s not a problem within COOL but actually something else (hardware; web browser; etc). The hard part is how to do that/

          • Banobe: Yes, I agree, but I don’t see how to do this with a common popup that automatically disappears

            • A warning with an ok button that allows the user to read the message and just after pressing the button → the message disappears

          • Pedro & Vivek:

            • I would rather not have an obtrusive message ….

            • we can do one more thing:

              • Add the message as a label directly in there

              • disable the ui in the edit mode for both the animations and transitions

                • Possible problem: people cannot change these things and save the document

  • Bayram

  • (In progress) – Writer: Title letters cut from below

    • configure the line space or find previous line and don’t draw on that line.

    • Writer → View → Field Shadings → layout is fine, background color overlaps with the bottom of the letters above, the space between lines can be increased.

  • Skyler

  • Bookmark dialog conversion to jsdialog

  • Android ANR/Closing issues

    • Looked at this some more, still don’t know much more than that we continue polling forever even when we have asked kit to shutdown

  • Pranam

  • Improving interoperability to import formulas from MSO

  • Fixing some async dialogues freezing new users joining

  • Gökay

Continues:

Moritz

  • Just listening

Samuel

  • Quick look at Gokay’s issue → related writer field, asked Michael S.

  • Looking at local build setup

    • problems with dependencies, namely poco version

    • Will probably send PR to improve build instructions

  • Online related work

    • Looking at an easy hack , good first issue. Maybe: Adding the accelerator to the toolbar

Luna * Just listening in before lunch

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