Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #63

[pedro.silva]

Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #63

Date: Mar 10 2022

Next meeting: 17/03/2022

All minutes published on: Meeting Minutes - Collabora Online

Attendees (write your name):

• Michael, Alexandru, Gokay, Julius, Nicolas, Pedro, Szymon, Andras, Andreas K, Aron

Infobar updates

• admin infobar still broken …
  • working on that – polishing translations (Gokay)
    • hopefully will be fixed by next week.
• Welcome dialog now has translations – should be done in a short while (Gokay)

Forum

• Trying to get joe to write a forum topic on how to insert text into a cell using python
  • https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/how-to-insert-text-into-excel-use-wopi
  • The sources on the internet are not that recent (OO forum 2018) and some discussion on stackO, would be good to start to have those
  • We can convert that into special posts (kinda of wiki posts)
• New users in the forum – encouragingly.
• Report of public-share link fails to load …
  • here: Public share fails to load
    • best to open a richdocuments issue for that.
      • Collabora not loading when trying to open document from not logged in user · Issue #1698 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub
• Document not opening: on Android/iOS with CSP:
  • 5.0.3 CSP bits do not let documents open #2060
• Blinking Keyboard on Android …
  • Pixel-6 happens …
  • Can’t be reproduced.
  • Keyboard is an out-of-process component (Michael)
    • asynchronous, and horrible, tries to fight input.
    • Possibly around where the cursor is in an entry (?)
    • depends on native vs. google-keyboard etc.
    • validation nightmare.

Community pages updates

• New contribution – Fedora build instructions were added thanks to <>
• Also Arch Linux build instructions thanks to <>

GitHub activity:

• Not had time to go through the PRs (Pedro)

Nextcloud bits (Julius)

• When copying / duplicating a document (Pedro)
  • will duplicate with extension – throws an error in richdocuments.
  • Copying a file and renaming it in the same directory · Issue #2092 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub
• Richdocuments release last week
  • investigating the mobiele CSP things …
  • working on notebookbar polishing
  • expose the setting ? (Michael)
    • can discuss with Jan if we want to make it the default.
    • And yes – hav a setting for that.
• Office.vue problem
  • still not found a reliable way to reproduce it
  • perhaps a setup issue / checks etc.
  • working on a new check-end-point to validate the connection

Design bits (Pedro)

• One ‘classic’ mode ?

  • Sounds like something we would use if we want to be out of date
  • Want to offer two UI modes – whatever you choose should be good.
  • ‘Compact’ instead of classic ?
  • toolbar vs. tab-bar ? (Michael)

• Comments – in reduced screensize

  • will be a popup / dialog – re: avatar of users etc.

• CSS vars colorsheet.css (Andreas K)

  • more cleanup just got in.
  • lots of !important properties regarding mobile
  • thought on mobile – load mobile CSS, and tablet tablet CSS – but seems everything is loaded.
  • Ideally move things for just desktop to there (Pedro)

• Lots of CSS (Michael)

  • 3Mb of this or so.
  • many come from 3rd party things (Andreas K)
  • still have a long term goal to drop w2ui (Pedro)
    • Gokay has a working test of this …
    • please open an issue (Andreas K)
      • afraid of regressions but should create (Pedro)

• Screenshots from GNOME (Andreas K)

  • Dark & Light - has preview images.
  • With an image to select toolbar mode – don’t have to focus on names etc.
  • ideally something styalized (Michael)
    • to avoid screenshot translations …

• Header area: (Andreas K)

  • filed the issue …

Other ongoing work (Andras)

• Last week had CODE 21.11.2.4 update
• Next CODE release – next week – 21.11.3
• Fixing autofilter position bits and with RTL (Szymon)
  • Fixed regression from undo/redo pieces around shapes.
• New welcome dialog → ongoing fixing here.

GSOC

• Not accepted this year, unfortunately.
• Budget for interns to work on some of the tasks if people know of students …
  • poke Pedro if so.

Leaflet – what is it ? (Andraes K)

• the map-widget we built on initially (Michael)
  • getting phased-out now a lot.
  • https://leafletjs.com/
• Strange that some dialogs are using that technology, others something else.
• What is Vex ?
  • Horrible dialog library (Michael)
    • would like to get rid of it.
    • vex
• mobile has JS dialogs – not on desktop
  • which one ? (Szymon)
    • Watermark (Andreas)
    • created initially for mobile, with simplified dialogs
    • now we have more of the widgets, can check to enable
  • get some code pointers to check this (Szymon)
    • requires to re-build the core to do this ?
    • Can we add an option to test this ? (Michael)
      • putenv(“ENABLE_DLG=foo.glade”) or whatever ?
      • AI: come up with a small patch here (Szymon)
    • Checking dialogs for CSS (Andreas)
  • Should we need CSS per dialog ? (Michael)
    • goal is not to have that – but for it to ‘just work’
    • it should just work (Szymon)
      • 3 in the whole dialog.
      • like generic solutions (Michael)
        • 2.3k .ui files in the core …
      • Pedro changed the layouting to flex …
        • previously had mostly tables.
  • Generically speaking (Pedro)
    • have in-mind as a goal – simplify the # of child/parents in HTML
      • makes it harder to make it generic.
    • structure is generated in the core – can’t detect ids not being used (Szymon)
  • Is there a task-list for dialogs sow e have a goal ? (Andreas K)
    • some important ones for a11y that we need …
    • Cor working on this area now.

Next Meeting

17/03/2022