# Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #69

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**Created:** [April 21, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-69/1057 "2022-04-21T10:59:29Z")\
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**Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #69**

Date: Apr 21 2022

Next meeting: 28/04/2022

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

**Attendees (write your name):**

- Pedro, Szymon, Cor, Gabriel, Julien V. (NC), Gokay, Ezinne, Andras, Aron, Pranam, Michael, Kendy, Nicolas Christener, Tor,

**Gabriel (1-and-1)**

- Moving the last modified timestamp and save status to status bar : [https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4531](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4531)
  - A good idea to move it (Pedro)
    - can work as a nifty solution for using Notebookbar on small screens
    - with many things going on up top – can be a very good idea.

  - If integrators have status-bar hidden by default (and some integrators do)
    - we need to be up-top.

  - Conclusion:
    - needs to be a switch we can enable / disable:
    - one of the UI options we pass in – with options & colors.
      - UI\_Defaults the best way (Kendy)
      - [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://sdk.collaboraonline.com/docs/theming.html?highlight=ui_defaults) (Pedro)

- Improve group\_download\_as xml option (having the download options within a dropdown)
  - Helpful to have yout icon review / feedback (Pedro)
    - also fixed labelling, and merged an improved icon
    - [Ambiguous description of "Export as..." functions in the NotebookBar · Issue #4564 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4564)
    - [Improve group\_download\_as: replace icon by pedropintosilva · Pull Request #4575 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4575)
      - pending.

    - [Private/pedro/group download as improvements by pedropintosilva · Pull Request #4576 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4576)
    - discovered Alexandro using UNO command – need to pass something to make it work.
      - Have a fix for this with Formulabar work (Szymon)
        - in the Formulabar pull request.

- Busy with other things for \>1 month; nothing so new
  - hope to be back in normal regimen in May.

**Welcome updates (Gokay)**

- released new CODE version yesterday with welcome dialog fixes – also for fallback
  - bugs fixed, should be mobile friendly too.

- Andreas K improved the fallback dialog too (Pedro)
- Still need to add a timer to spin the slides & close them automatically
- Should add a timer to other dialogs eg. update-check (Pedro)

**Forum (Pedro)**

- Thanks “joergmschulz” and “Gohrner“ for being so active (Trust Level 2 users) on the forum but also on GH etc
  - Also another more recent but very active user “cortrum” helping out left and right
  - thanks to all helping out!

- Some more reports around configuration problems
  - Rashesh is being doing a great job hunting these down
  - And making sure what is related to multi host configuration and what is not
  - He is testing out different configuration environments and then he will report back
  - Specially with nginx, some users are not able to open document in the NC. Trying to reproduce it – but hit a dead-end and can’t progress this.
  - Federation Nextcloud share file not working, CO does not open file: [https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/federation-nextcloud-share-file-not-open-on-collabora-online](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/federation-nextcloud-share-file-not-open-on-collabora-online)
    - (Szymon) this is quite complex because it does not work with normal local setup
      - it really requires production-like setup
      - In NC configuration we might need some special entries to setup that

- “hanging up” does not happen with a public link generated by Nextcloud itself. It only happens when I’m actually logged in. I have no clue → [can-not-create-doc-docx-and-odt](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/can-not-create-doc-docx-and-odt/1025/6)
  - lots of lots, long discussion – why it hangs as a normal user but not a public link ?
    - Difference here is the Nextcloud side ? (Michael)
      - ping Nextcloud.

**GitHub activity:**

- Some new issues reported – just ned to process them
- Impress / notebookbar needs a fix – some inconsistencies; missing button to edit master-slides.

**Nextcloud bits (Julien)**

- Font pieces:
  - still the same symptoms – compiling the latest branch, using with NC 24
    - up-loaded a bunch of extra font-files, a few TTFs etc.
    - check access logs opening document – see the font-end-point is requested
    - some fonts are downloaded – but don’t see them in the font list.

  - Can’t easily inject into existing documents: need to load a new one (Michael)
  - Can we get names from the font file ?
    - Yes code looks up name from font inside it (Tor)

  - May be related to how many spare kit processes are lying around (Tor)
  - Expectation: available to all users immediately ? (Tor)
    - perhaps a good idea to shut-down un-used pre-forked documents (Michael)
      - when the font list changes.

  - How important → that font files can be updated on the fly (?)
    - if downloaded font-file already; how important to re-download them, don’t care if it is immediate.
    - Updating fonts that are already downloaded brings a lot of problems (Tor)
      - they are memory mapped – SIGBUS etc.
      - VCL – no way to un-register temporary fonts.

    - Perhaps we should exit th eforkit in this case (Michael)
      - and just get that re-started.

  - 10am CET – will send an invite to Tor.
  - Can compile a short E-mail on the steps (Aron)
    - from testing this; and send it after the call.

  - Update from Julien
    - I can see the custom fonts in the UI’s list, the UI freezes when a custom font is selected

- Desktop / PC locking / launching feature → next for Tor.
  - Getting locking information and then we can discuss how CO can pick up those details

- UI switcher [Add toggle for UI mode to menubar and notebookbar by juliusknorr · Pull Request #4254 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4254) (Szymon)
  - Some issues with the patch – need to implement browser storage, then it can be finished.
  - **Getting this out is a high-priority (Gokay)**

- @Mentions – Julius (still?) writing up a spec.
  - no way how to store an id of the user currently.
  - Initials / etc. no kind of handle there / E-mail or anything.
  - Use the same thing for mentions themselves.
    - [Mention users · Issue #92 · nextcloud/text · GitHub](https://github.com/nextcloud/text/issues/92#issuecomment-1048679448)
    - [CollaboraOnline menues get overlayed by frame menu from NC · Issue #138 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub](https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues/138)

  - Design is mostly there – Rash to look at this next.

**Design bits (Pedro)**

- Feature request of comparing documents created
  - more people would like this – reporting on richdocuments side.
  - Could be something simpler: not a full-fledged comparison with three-up etc.
  - re-use what we have with track-changes.
  - Find this compare-documetns quite hard to understand (Michael)
    - to the point that it’s really hard to know what changed.
    - Focus on something people request – to compare with current document – might be easier
    - If there is a clear way and “compare is not it” to explain what happens we should do it

  - Compare to versions (Kendy)
    - new version is current version, and historic is ‘old’ version
    - would modify the document – is that what the users want ?
    - Would be useful in another use-case: in a document conflict on the storage
      - useful to present this as well; instead of only choice: keep / discard etc.

    - Some limited use-cases that are useful.

  - Horrifingly irritated by compare-documetns in LibreOffice (Michael)
    - would hate to confuse our users with red-lining foo.
    - Linked discussion:
      - [Collabora · GitHub](https://github.com/Collabora)[Online/online/issues/4535](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4535)

- Dark mode discussion: [Add a dark mode · Issue #4382 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4382)
  - CSS vars are there, apparently users not happy with linear inverting of colors.
  - Andreas K. there and doing a summary of stuff that is already done
  - can we use the core-side here ? LibreOffice already has a theme for document page
  - **AI** : look at this and come up with a design **(Kendy)**

- Lots of regressions fixed
- Work from Rashesh to conver dialogs to async.
- Introduced define print area on Calc
- A.I.: Rename UI modes
  - Make sure that the configuration file accepts old and new values
  - Gokay looking at this.

**Dialog widgets (Szymon)**

- Already merged – dialog for testing JSDialogs – can see a few widgets in different states.
- Useful for designers already (Pedro)

**22.05 bits (Gokay)**

- Postponing our beta release for 22.05 and want to add more features in the meantime – will push it out some weeks.

**Other ongoing work (Szymon)**

- Formula-bar PR is ready for review, and Mert is testing / reviewing.

**Android / iOS updates (Gokay)**

- Mobile – no bad feedback as far as we know now.

## GitPod updates (Pedro)

- we recommend 22.05 in our gitpod releases
- thanks to Andras.

**Next Meeting**

28/04/2022