Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #234

[darshan]

Date: 02/10/2025

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

Attendees (write your name):

Darshan, Skyler, Parth, Ezinne, Hub, Attlia, Anna, Banobe, João, Bayram, Méven

Testing

Files – ( password is coolmeeting)

Staging-perf

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

• Calc - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/Kstp4PaBTNoD8Ek

• Impress - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/aDk4yoLZAFsmwXm

Share

• Writer - https://share.collabora.com/index.php/s/jf6CijFNq78cTMr

• Calc - https://share.collabora.com/index.php/s/TLe3bqj5HBCEFo3

• Impress - https://share.collabora.com/index.php/s/QGAzcsdCfJaxwFN

• 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. COPY PASTE in CALC

• Copy/paste formula cell within Calc Online

  • Formula should paste as formula and recalculate.

• Copy/paste chart within Calc Online

  • Chart pastes correctly, linked to data.

• Copy/paste Text from Wiki or Internet page (https://www.collaboraonline.com/ ) to Calc Online

  • Content pastes into Cell correctly, Format preserved.

1. 1. COPY PASTE IN WRITER

• Copy/paste formatted text within Writer Online

  • Copy ( bold, italics, lists) texts. Close the document

  • Reopen and Paste the copied content

  • Ensure formatting (bold, italics, lists) is preserved.

• Copy/paste image within Writer Online

  • Image should paste correctly without distortion or placeholders.

• Copy/paste chart from Writer Online → LibreOffice Writer

  • Chart should paste correctly and remain editable.

3. COPY PASTE IN IMPRESS

• Copy/paste a full slide with text + image within Impress Online

  • Slide pastes as new slide, layout intact.

• Copy/paste text box within Impress Online

  • Text pastes correctly with formatting preserved.

• Copy/paste chart from Impress Online → LibreOffice Impress

  • Chart pastes correctly and remains editable.

1. Release Schedule

• 25.04.5.2 Green Code Released

• 25.04.5.3

• Next week in the beginning 25.04.6.1 => smoke test to do

• Collabora Office Desktop 25.04.4.1 already out!

• Mobile release

  • Next release is still expected to be around the end of October

  • kendy fixed ios taking long time to open => thanks

• 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

• Banobe

  • Notebookbar: Add right padding to toolbar (In Review)

    • Waiting for stable CI

  • Calc: Add “tab list” for easy access to tabs (In progress)

  • Looking into Notebookbar inconsistent fonts (family and weights)

• 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

• fixed a bug with comments in online (no PR yet .. if comment was big enough in some case we was not able to read the end of it).

• Extended Chart Styles: (Support font style themes, with customizable text element assignment).
  Refactored the online part of context toolbar, because in review I was asked to change it from JSDialog to canvas/section version … this way its position will be document related.
  It mostly working, but still have a few things to handle… like the button highligting .. or when I zoom, the position go wrong ..
  this is an old PR with the JSDialog: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12996
  will make a new PR soon.

• Andras

• 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 ruler drag marker Lines https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13065

    • Fix contextual toolbar popup overflowing off screen https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13052

• Bayram

• (Closed) - Writer: DOCX opens with line numbers in the footnote (tdf#167202)

  • https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/191493 (Merged - lo/master, co-25.04)

• (To Test) - 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)

    • re-revert for co-25.04: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/191176 (Merged - co-25.04)

  • core4: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190314 (Merged - lo/master, co-25.04)

  • core5: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190439 (Merged - lo/master, co-25.04)

  • core6: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/190924 (Merged - lo/master, co-25.04)

  • interop regression testing on 25.04.5-2 (Aron)

• (In Progress) - Keep Power Query when saving XLSX (tdf#158857)

  • implement queryTables.

• Skyler

• iOS testing

  • …managed to get file transfer working properly

  • …now making the tests work on iPhones as well as iPads, and then will be getting them in to our CI

• Gulsah

• Timur @Anna

• Just observing.

• Hub

  • No updates

• Méven

  • Review draft to fix a recent regression origin, comments to treat

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12747

  • logoUrl parameter: IN REVIEW, needs css validation, Pedro

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12410

  • Checking downloaded OOXML / ODT are zip (low priority)

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11962

• Parth

  • The paragraph dropdown is a bit overlapped with the heading

    • fix: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12990

  • Page Numbers lack keyboard accessibility

    • fix: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13011

  • Navigator tabs are not accessible via keyboard

    • fix: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13031

  • Missing role attribute in Quick find navigation bar

    • fix: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13031

  • Navigator outline(treegrid) is not fully keyboard accessible

    • fix: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13032

  • added cypress test cases for replace tab in find and replace dialog

    • fix: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13034

  • disabled group should not have focus

    • fix: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13039

  • Missing ARIA attributes in Table→Border

    • fix: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13042

  • Programmatically Determinable Labeling of Form Elements

    • fix: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/12702 (updated existing PR to also include fix for this)

  • Margin dialog lacks keyboard accessibility

    • fix: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13050

Events

• COOL Days 2026 - 27 – 29th April 2026 - Hamburg, Germany - Collabora Office and Collabora Online

Forum Topics

• Top forum topics from last week:

  • Activate an use screen reader accessibility https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/activate-an-use-screen-reader-accessibility/4032/3

  • Menu Item “Options” not visible https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/menu-item-options-not-visible/4028/7

  • For a minimal home server, it possible to reduce RAM usage?https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/for-a-minimal-home-server-it-possible-to-reduce-ram-usage/4045

  • Change user in Docker container https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/change-user-in-docker-container/4046

Next meeting

• 09/10/2025