# Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #61 **URL:** \ **Category:** Meeting Minutes\ **Created:** [February 24, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-61/909 "2022-02-24T12:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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# Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #61 Date: Feb 24 2022 Next meeting: 03/03/2022 All minutes published on: [Meeting Minutes - Collabora Online](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14) ## Attendees (write your name): - Pedro, Ezinne, Thorsten, Nicolas Christener (Adfinis), Alexandru, Szymon, Mert, Michael, Kendy, Gokay, Gabriel, Andreas K ## Infobar updates - welcome dialog: last release went ok - the welcome dialog looking good - Still on going work (by Gokay now and I try to help) - infobar around still (for admins): last release went ok, it looked fine - Still on going work (by Gokay now) ## Forum - Interest on building for Android - problem with translations (gerrit? Repository), I couldn’t reproduce - [Build CODE for Android - #7 by svk](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/build-code-for-android/455/7) - mention the translations when explaining how to build … - had this problem (Szymon) - thought git doing nothing, opened the folder – cloned repo himself. - Same as for core repo – after pull this repo – go back to main repo – it works. - Perhaps submodule failing ? (Michael) - Would be ideal if users could install a lang-pack for XYZ language (Michael) - have a plan for it – Mert started implementing it (Kendy) - not very easy to do (Mert) - cannot put folders into the assets/ as we want. - It requires some hacks – called onto other tasks. - we have two-to-three regulars kindly helping out: - many thanks to: **tullsta, rpear, joergmschulz, MVZ-LRA** - Cool to see interesting discussions generating new reproducible issues on GH. E.g: Calc does not save zoom level neither view position: - [After editing calc sheet in iPad Collabora, it opens in Windows Libre at 200%](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/after-editing-calc-sheet-in-ipad-collabora-it-opens-in-windows-libre-at-200/888) - [Collabora Calc save re-opens in Libre at 200% zoom · Issue #4250 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4250) - zoom across arbitrary devices a bit of a nightmare (Michael) - multiple users – creates problems too - saving position & zoom in the file-format can have some more work. - Hoping to have an ID for users that is globally available in comments etc. (Kendy) - once set – able to recognize you’re the same person – not hopeless - Brief chasing of empty-selection discussion. - Interest on SDK, admin and moodle; also more requests for help around those - [Information CODE](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/information-code/896) - [https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/how-to-insert-text-into-excel-use-wopi/](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/how-to-insert-text-into-excel-use-wopi/) - etc. ## Community pages updates - [http://col.la/io](http://col.la/io) - build instructions improved (and fixed some details) - improving mobile build bits to make things easier for GSOC’ers - Also updated GSoC Ideas Pages (more pointers added, images, and submitted) - already interest in one or two ideas here. ### GitHub activity: - **New contributors** - Thanks to: **tcitworld** from Framasoft - files a [new bug](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4264) and fixes it, [“Fix app.sectionContainer being null”](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4265) 🙂 - **New issues:** - [Univention-App-collabora-nextcloud-virtualbox doesn’t work](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4240) - Ezinne to look at it. - [Group download actions as an option](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4282) - looks good (Pedro) - For export we have nothing (Andreas) - could have alternative “export as PDF” to cloud storage (Michael) - with save-as done according to extension (Kendy) - perhaps better done on the integration. - Instead of iframe to download file – can issue post-message to Save-As (Alexandru) - LOK has a ‘Save-As’ – it handles this (Kendy) - has to be transparent – times for conversion of files, - no user-interaction possible. - could have Save-as that could tunnel the dialog with PDF options - not only a post-message. - GM: Saving file through local storage is not working properly: [Saving file through local storage is NOK when mount\_jail\_tree is set to false · Issue #4232 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4232) - filed, but after investigating – found already did that (Gabriel) - discussions with Ash, comments in there – conclusion: from Ash, not to fix it – issue in deprecated code etc. closed it. - Since we discussed: maybe code is used on iOS or something maybe a good idea to fix it – filed the ticket. - Not a fan of things like this lurking (Michael) - if we can fix it – great. - Already advanced at investigating this - great to have detail in the ticket (Michael) **Nextcloud bits (Pedro)** - Quick update: - lots of work around Nextcloud Office - Notebookbar too – thanks to work with Andreas K - Office.vue problem - seen reports – but not able to reproduce it - reporter not able to reproduce it either - [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) - es-419 locales … (Michael) - worked around boost / gettext – and fixes in LibreOffice core too. - Creating new documents from template (Pedro) - can reproduce in built-in docker image, Julius thinks he understands, is the solution easy though **Design bits (Pedro)** - Notebookbar keeps getting improved - Improvements around Document header - Fix weird borders going on affecting mobile - New icon created and added to the document (writer) accessibility check, feature being worked/exposed by Nick : ) - New lang dropdown available from within the tab - styles added and fixed - Szymon thanks for the JS bits - Thinks getting to finish of notebookbar with Nextcloud (Andreas K) - CSS vars colorsheet.css (Andreas K) - should we make some guidelines there. - can we put that as comments in the CSS itself ? (Michael) - agreed (Pedro) - do a ping in the forum to link to this. - Lets add a ptr to the SDK too (Kendy) - Other bits applying border radius consistently in many elements - have some dialogs with huge rounded corners – need to fix. - Some NB tabs’ content / order of importance need to be fixed ## Migrating complex dialogs to jsdialog ? (Michael) - simple dialogs – should all work (Szymon) - complex dialogs – did progress – may be things that don’t work - if have special actions like context menu on right-click - almost supported. - Can start to test format→character and format→paragraph etc. - was looking good when tested. - Prolly should start testing these in the next CODE releases (Michael) - Some simple dialogs like ‘columns’ are still tunneled (Pedro) - **AI:** ask Cor to come up with a list here (Pedro) - Starting to make variables used in the dialogs (Andreas K) - most dialogs are tunnelled – plans to have them as JS - looks strange in the CSS – have to do a lot of work for each dialog - goal is not to have lots of CSS per dialog (Michael) - Mix of Vex, native, jsdialogs (Pedro) - write a wrapper for jsdialogs to look like vex (Szymon) - would love to kill Vex (Michael) **Other ongoing work (Gokay)** - Next CODE release March 17th - Still working on perfecting async-save - Lots of polishing ongoing … - Remote configuration work – JSON to fetch (Rashesh) - nearly merged. - Looks good, next step – sort out aliasing problem, - Rash has this in his setup & working on it. - Fixed text-box content saving (Szymon) - will continue with RTL. **1&1 bits (Gabriel)** - Finished testing – end-result app is stable, looks nice, works nicely - found some issues – none are critical. - Will proceed to upgrade to 21.11 - Have a list of issues to go through - Alexandru - pushing some pull requests, some were accepted - two in review currently. - one download-as - another in the pipeline – and done with the document we discussed - after this – work on upgrading to 21.11 - cherry-picking pull-requests into this version (?) ## GSOC - Have a nice page: - [https://collaboraonline.github.io/gsoc/](https://collaboraonline.github.io/gsoc/) - [GitHub · Where software is built](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AGSoC) ## Commit Access - Nick Wingate → give him access **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) - [As a user dealing with multiple language I'd like to have a translation service integrated into CooL · Issue #4285 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4285) **Next Meeting** 03/03/2022