Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #3

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Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #3

Date: Nov 26, 2020

Next meeting: Dec 03, 2020

Suggested topics: https://staging.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/2j94DydLT3XjedN

Attendees: Muhammet, Andras, Nicolas Christener, Gabriel Masei, Szymon, Andreas Kainz, Pedro Silva, Kendy, Thais, Michael, Gökay, Ezinne, Yunusemre, Bayram Çiçek, Ayhan Yalçınsoy

Agenda:

Quick update (Muhammet)

Contextual toolbars (Andreas Kainz)

Icon theming (css class names has to be defined) (Andreas Kainz)

  • Status (Pedro)

    • not got to this yet.

    • Would like to be cautious with the number of classes …

    • AI : turn this into a github ticket (Muhammet)

      • and move discussion / logging of decisions there.

  • Next week → will check icons & (Pedro)

    • Can avoid manual work by appending class-names to SVG at build-time

    • AI: Pedro will come up with class names and ping Andreas

    • AI: Pedro will look into the SVG sprite and SVG symbol (probably need more time to test and check with the team)

  • Positive feedback from Andreas’ family on icon theming with classes

    • really fun to see, a pleasure to find a solution with Pedro.

    • Not sure we need that many colors in this stuff.

    • Already updated a large number of icons.

    • More classes, easier to change specific stuff – but can make everything similar

    • with 10 colors – can make them all the same, but only with 10 classes.

  • Hopefully helps people focus on outline & metaphore instead of color (Michael)

    • Expect future icon themes to start with color changing & then tweak some icons (Andreas)

      • Should be easier to find new contributors for icons.

Blog post about the iOS app upgrade (Nicolas)

  • Plans to write when it is out

  • Expect to release in the next few days (Andras)

  • Expect to release the Android bits as a 10% testing thing.

  • Do beta users get that ? (Nicolas)

    • thought you were in this group (Kendy)

      • necessary to click a link ?

      • Can you check CollaboraOffice – do you have «interna tester» ?

        • Don’t see it (Nicolas)

          • says something about Beta, but nothing else.

    • Anyone wanting early access – please talk to Kendy / Yunusemre

      • we will need your gmail handle – to add you to the testing group

      • then you need to click a link to agree that.

  • Also tried to install Android version on Sailfish (Nicolas)

    • not very interested, but can help out if necessary

    • why not ? (Kendy)

      • lets do it off-line, open a ticket.

      • What architecture, logging output.

Mobile / iOS (Pedro)

  • good news on the iPad front – the Notebookbar improved for iPad

  • discussed with Tor in a screen-sharing meeting

  • was clashing with iOS status bar at the top

  • have a more clutter-free notebookbar now

  • many fixes are included in 6.4

    • its beautiful (Nicolas)

      • whomever worked on it – georgeous.

      • Hope we can attracct users with that.

      • thanks for your support here too ! (Michael)

  • various other things, eg. close button fixed for other platforms

  • can also be re-used for Chromebooks ? (Nicolas)

    • expect so (Pedro)

Community website (Pedro)

  • Forum link – is in the footer & in the community post it could be easier to find at a glance.

  • Improved that now, it’s part of the top button – impossible to miss.

  • Anyone wanting to improve the content of the website :

Commits for review ? (Muhammet)

CanvasTileLayer update (Gokay)

  • working on twips ↔ Map unit problems, digging for the root cause

  • updated split-panes, because of 1 based index for columns.

  • 1 core pix ↔ 1 canvas pix ↔ 1 device pix.

  • Ideally we get rid of LatLng (Kendy)

    • patch is already getting huge

    • if we think it’s in some sensible state for master – lets merge it.

    • Tell Kendy what to review & get in.

  • Perhaps need a workaround for the row/column headers

    • the cell cursor is mis-placed.

Help / getting setup ?

Admin question (Gabriel)

  • if I want to work on something, how can we avoid overlapping / duplication ?

  • Lots of ways (Michael)

  • What is your direction ? (Michael)

    • dynamic change of toolbar type – classic & notebookbar (Gabriel)

      • can be implemented per-document & per-view

      • plan to do it per-document

    • happy to help with code pointers etc. (Michael)

      • better idea to do this per-document first (Szymon)

        • can paste some code pointers of where to look

        • and how it is activated.

        • Help from «eszka» available on IRC.

Server re-boot during session (Kendy)

  • The latest snapshot, re-freshes from git, and re-starts

  • AI : check vs. Screenshots how we survived (Kara)

Next Meeting

Next meeting will take place on Thursday, December 03, 2020 at 11:00 am (UTC)