# Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #60

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**Created:** [February 21, 2022, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-60/894 "2022-02-21T08:26:03Z")\
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# Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #60

Date: Feb 17 2022

Next meeting: 24/02/2022

All minutes published on: [Meeting Minutes - Collabora Online](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14)

## Attendees (write your name):

- Pedro, Gabriel, Michael, Kendy, Julius, Nicolas, Simon, Andras, Pranam

## Community updates

- welcome dialog still a mess – but being worked on.
- Butchered infobar around still (for admins)

### FOSDEM

- lots of good presence there – talks & positive feedback from people

## Forum

- nice to have activity from people there, rising sign-up numbers
- we have two-to-three regulars kindly helping out:
  - thanks to: …

- github discussions:
  - mainly for technical announcements – asks to tests etc.
    - encourage questions onto the forum, and in organic searches.
    - And with SDK links now; more and more discoverable.

## SDK updates

- work gone on here to make it easier to follow, up-to-date, migrate etc.

### GitHub activity:

- **New issues:**
  - calc can turn on & off tracking changes via keyboard shortcuts
    - [Calc: Missing Tracking changes menu items to turn on/off, to accept/reject as well as the Manage dialog · Issue #4111 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4111)
      - should turn off the K/B shortcuts for now in online.
      - **AI:** turn into an easy-hack (Pedro)

  - Presentation not working on Android:
    - [Android app doesn't show slides in presentation mode · Issue #4063 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4063)
      - fix merged - [android: fix slideshow displays black background by merttumer · Pull Request #4156 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4156)

## GSOC

- presence on the front-page of [https://collaboraonline.github.io/](https://collaboraonline.github.io/)
- Several tasks, org submission still pending …
  - lots of nice code pointers there; mostly JS & C++
  - Mockups / images pending – so easier to understand.

**Nextcloud bits (Julius)**

- Maintenance release of Nextcloud Office app
  - lots of fixes that piled up in the last weeks
  - particularly the template handling heavily improved
  - files created from templates were not opened properly.
    - Any further reports – would like to see them – should be solved.

  - Fixes mis-positioning of the iframe.

- Looking into some further feature development
  - Working on hamburger menu & UI in general.
  - font-up-loading is coming along (Kendy)
    - Written the JSON downloading pieces
    - Hope to have Tor on this next week.

- Notebookbar configuration option ?
  - Not started yet – but on the list after polishing Notebookbar
  - Once it looks decent – will add config switches a next step.

- Office.vue problem
  - seen reports – but not able to reproduce it
  - [Office.vue:198 FAILED](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/office-vue-198-failed/855)
  - still appreciate help to get hands-on a system with this issue.
  - A failure happening loading the COOL frame – causes this error message.
  - [. · Issue #2016 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub](https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues/2016)

- Chasing a strange locale issue with es-419 locales …
  - very odd; have a patch to give the user an error not a hang queued.

- Discussion – how to improve the Nextcloud sidebar when viewing in the doc
  - perhaps we don’t need document preview – have more space etc.
  - need to discuss with designers.

- Users/comment system ? (Nicolas)
  - highlighting someone in a comment so they get a notification – cf. Gdocs?
    - Would be very helpful.
    - Needs joint work on this.

  - Been discussing it with kendy (Julius)
    - [Notify users on mentions in document comments · Issue #1380 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub](https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues/1380)
    - main technical problem – currently no way to store unique-id for user in the document itself
      - hard to persist the information.

    - Best might be federated users-id (Kendy)
      - looks like an E-mail address … (?)

## Forum activity:

- lots of these being answered by Pedro.

**Design bits (Pedro)**

- Notebookbar keeps getting improved
- Hamburger Menu can nearly be removed – fewer elements fighting for attention
- Fewer elements around paragraph styles’ look, cleaner now.
- Annoying bug – only calc on mobile – weird bezel on top toolbar
- CSS vars wins from Andreas K
  - many of these have been merged.

- Andreas K switched save icon switched to a cloud – got merged.
  - [replace floppy disk icon for save · Issue #4215 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4215)
  - its purpose needs to be instantly recognizable …

- Other bits applying border radius consistently in many elements
- Have some dialogs with huge rounded corners – need to fix.

**Other ongoing work (Gokay)**

- Working on CODE release today
  - later today will have a new CODE release
  - working on the last minor things on that.

- Szymon working on the welcome dialog
- Pranam working to improve master view & impress editing.
- Remote configuration work – JSON to fetch (Rashesh)
  - nearly done with this – will have a screencast today.
  - starting the font thing.

- Async-save – still yet more fixing here from Ash
  - looking reasonably reliable in our testing.

- RTL fixes & various other fixes.

**Schedule & update (Andras)**

- Created a new release branch co-21-11-2 will release from there

**1&1 bits (Gabriel)**

- Tried to reproduce performance issue creating a new page
  - could not reproduce it.
  - Perhaps should press a special button / set of actions to generate it.
  - Something like a corner case.
  - Could be related to fields & invalidations (Michael)

- issue with async-save
  - investigated – only reproducible when using local storage
    - not an issue - only affects debugging.

  - Local-storage has two usages (Kendy)
    - initially for testing, but now we have internal WOPI server in debug mode
    - file-storage – still used for apps: iOS / Android
    - if potential that this affects apps themselves:
      - needs fixing at some stage

    - app has only one view & user in this case.

  - Could be a non-issue there too.

- Would be good to fix if this is reproducible (Kendy)
  - if something simple can provide a fix (Gabriel)
    - will create an issue.

- Alexandrus’ console debugging: (Michael)
  - I added Help→About – check-box for console logging → can enable it.

- Alexandru’s Inserting remote image post-message (Pedro)
  - via post-message, the way we do via insert→image from the menu
  - [browser: support inserting remote image via postMessage by alessioalex-1and1 · Pull Request #4192 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4192)
    - perhaps should update the document example to show this.
    - Need to check locally – passed tests;
      - need to add to SDK documentation.

- Alexandru’s last modification timeout setting (Pedro) [browser: add last modification timeout setting by alessioalex-1and1 · Pull Request #4195 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4195)
  - needs re-basing.

**Easy bug(s) (Pedro)**

- Pranam added recently a new one: [Drop IE11 support · Issue #4159 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4159)
- Andreas K. also added one: [add command to collapse notebookbar tabs · Issue #4115 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4115)

**Next Meeting**

17/01/2022