Date: 11/09/2025
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Attendees (write your name):
Ezinne, Skyler, Darshan, Pedro, Banobe, Bayram, Méven, Parth, João, Hub, Szymon, Richard, Anna, Maya, Gulsah, Maya
Testing
Files – ( password is coolmeeting)
Staging-perf
◦ Writer - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/9coYK76HGpiHJPm
◦ Calc - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/iasgsq6PAKYkyHM
◦ Impress - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/MWKLRFBs3XNf7Nc
Share
◦ Writer - https://share.collabora.com/index.php/s/KxPMskXHR8oPL2Q
◦ Calc - https://share.collabora.com/index.php/s/BPxBWMFqqo5o6QC
◦ Impress - https://share.collabora.com/index.php/s/FMsciokTYC7eWwz
• 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
• 25.04.5.2 Green Code Released
• Second week of 25.04.6.1
◦ Regression found: on spreadsheet: row selection
◦ Spreadsheet: clone formatting cursor never shows up
▪ CC: Sahil, Eliiot
◦ Navigation: search results goes under the status bar on scrolling
• Collabora Office Desktop 25.04.4.1 already out!
• Mobile release
◦ Snapshot builds for 25.04.5 are out on Android and ready for testing
▪ Android builds are here: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/downloads/Collabora-Office-Android-Snapshot/
◦ iOS is waiting on Apple review
▪ Will get those in testing when that iOS review is done – and then will be ready for release :)
▪ They will be available at https://testflight.apple.com/join/TEnBWi68
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 2 (Already ask sahil and gokay to take action on this PR’s)
• Banobe
◦ Impress: Design tab: Convert theme dialog into iconView
▪ Looking into past conversions of icon view for example:- Transitions and master slides
▪ So far left with a core change of adding the theme icons to notebook bar
• Maya
• Rebase some past changes onto core/master
◦ Still some I need to do
• Working on some refactoring of hyperlink dialog
◦ https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190529
◦ https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190805
◦ https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190806
• Fix crash with opening wrong tab automatically https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190532
• More changes with the hyperlink jsdialog
◦ https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12835 make sure all fields align
◦ https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12723 can now be merged, as https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190506 has been merged in core
• https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12688 add tests for new hyperlink utility
◦ Can now merged now that https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190074 is merged
• Attila
• Extended Chart Styles: (Support font style themes, with customizable text element assignment).
Working on the buttons next to a selected chart, similar like context toolbar, I made a select theme dialog version from manage theme dialog. (I was not able to display the select theme popup from the sidebar)
Fixed several glitches .. like position fade/show mechanism, there is still a few glitches, like it not recognise if the selected picture is a chart ot not. And have some issues in some platforms.
• Andras
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• Szymon
• Fixing popups for overflow in the Notebookbar – showing artifacts on zoom
• Fixing cypress
• Reviews, trying to merge all the PRs we have
• Darshan
◦ PR:
• Fix : compact mode height of toolbar is wrong #12840 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12840
• Fix Separator issue for overflow menu popup in compact modified https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12841
• Toggle Track Changes state with correct UNO command handling https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12811
• Bayram
• (In progress) - Calc: Support xmlMaps.xml (tdf#167689)
◦ core1: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/188451 (Merged - lo/master, co-25.04)
◦ core2: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/189044 (Merged - lo/master, co-25.04)
◦ core3: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/189989 (Merged - lo/master, co-25.04)
▪ Temporarily reverted for red CODE 25.04.5.1 https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/189946
◦ core4: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190314 (Merged – lo/master)
◦ core5: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190439 (to review - waiting for CI)
▪ fix tableType issue.
◦ Calc supports xmlMaps now.
◦ When tableType="queryTable" some docs are failing to open in Excel → we need to support queryTables too. We can open a separate task for it.
• reported: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/12749 ([Enhancement] Calc: Add "tab list" for easy access to tabs #12749)
• Skyler
• Waiting for Szymon’s review on https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12652
◦ Got review from Szymon – made a fix for his comment, still waiting for review+testing on that
• Did some various things
◦ https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12827 → finally got a fix to iOS document blurring, just a stopgap for now but should fix the problem, merged :)
◦ https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12834 → further shortcut passthrough on MacOS for the switch-between-different-windows-of-the-same-app binding
◦ https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12838 → fix for Android to disable new (android 15) edge-to-edge feature until we adapt our UI to support it
• Gulsah
▪ Mouse wheel scroll in comment edit doesn't work
• https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12683
◦ Reviewed by Szymon and Gökay, Szymon detected a side affect. I’m working on it.
▪ Lost focus from comment to document → Gokay is out → Added Szymon as a reviwer
• https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12700
◦ CI faililng but Szymon said it is not related with the patch
▪ Currently: Ctrl+Shift+V paste unformatted NOK in Impress
• I detected browser/src/map/Clipboard.js _checkAndDisablePasteSpecial() returns false instead true. So We send uno:Paste instead of uno:PasteSpecial
◦ Trying to find a good solution for _checkAndDisablePasteSpecial()
• Timur @Anna
• Just observing.
• Méven
◦ logoUrl parameter: IN REVIEW, needs css validation, Pedro
▪ https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12410
◦ Review draft to fix a recent regression origin, comments to treat
▪ https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12747
◦ Checking downloaded OOXML / ODT are zip
▪ https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11962
• Chris
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• 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
◦ UI fixes
▪ sidebar UI fix: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12782 => merged
▪ Jsdialog UI fix: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12789 => merged
▪ Update Navigator Search UI: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12790 => merged
▪ cypress: add visual tests for chart wizard data series dialog: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12818 => merged
▪ Enable keyboard navigation in New/Change layout popup dialog: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12788 => in review
◦ Improved autosaved state for comments: => In review
▪ https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/7445
◦ iconview conversion completed,
▪ Writer-> Draw->Sidebar -> Line -> Thickness OR Writer->Insert->Chart->Chart Type->Thickness
• online: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12624 => in review
• core: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/189966 => in review
▪ Writer->Insert->Chart->Chart Type
• core: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190070 => in review
▪ Accessibility fixes in calc(in review):
• 1. core: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190299
• 2. core: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190070
• 3. core: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190299
• 4. core: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190070
• 5. core: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190478
• 6. core: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190558
• 7. online: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12702
• Joao
◦ Fix for a video play in impress: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12032
▪ Currently the video play is broken we get don’t get video just audio
▪ This is now fixed.
▪ Pedro has pinged Marco, Quikee and Szymon in the matrix channel
▪ Revert patch : https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11951
• Mohit
◦ Calc: create sheet options group to Layout tab
▪ moved “View Gridlines” button from View to Layout tab
▪ created a new toggle button for “Print Gridlines”
▪ sending param to enable gridlines for print to core
▪ trying to figure out how to handle that param on core side
▪ also considering to add a uno dispatch for this
◦ Impress: Add Slide tab
▪ https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12252 (merged)
◦ Notebookbar: add contextual Shape and Picture tabs instead of Draw tab
▪ done; will add a PR soon
• Sahil
▪ add spanish and french translations of calc functions (https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12669)
▪ make iconview expandable (https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12654)
• https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12654#issuecomment-3232853522 => screenshots → COOL!
Luna: Mostly just listening just got back from vacation in England, and continues with Swedish translation for the mobile version (worked 28th August last time when I got home to Sweden again)
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
Events
Forum Topics
• Top forum topics from last week:
◦ Watermarks in Collabora Online #FeatureFriday Watermarks in Collabora Online #FeatureFriday
◦ Collabaora Online public key is not available Collabaora Online public key is not available
◦ No “Close”-Button in Nextcloud-Office anymore No "Close"-Button in Nextcloud-Office anymore
◦ Possible to run Collabora Code docker image with gvisor? Possible to run Collabora Code docker image with gvisor?
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• 18/09/2025