# Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #70 **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Tags:** meeting-minutes\ **Created:** [April 28, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-70/1074 "2022-04-28T10:43:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pedro.silva](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/pedro.silva/32/4_2.png) [@pedro.silva](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/pedro.silva)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-70/1074/1 "2022-04-28T10:43:20Z")
**Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #70** Date: Apr 28 2022 Next meeting: 05/04/2022 All minutes published on: [Meeting Minutes - Collabora Online](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14) **Attendees (write your name):** - Pedro, Szymon, Andras, Gökay, Ezinne, Nicolas, Michael, Aron **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) - [Theming of Collabora Online — SDK https://sdk.collaboraonline.com/ documentation](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)** - Fallback welcome dialogue has been improved by Andreas & merged - Still need to add a timer to spin the slides & close them automatically - Should add a timer to other dialogues eg. update-check (Pedro) **Forum (Pedro)** - Need to go through the forum to take a look. - Still some reports around docker & configuration problems - Problem with MacOS Monterray: - 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) - Error duplicating a file within the same directory: [Copying a file and renaming it in the same directory · Issue #2092 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub](https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues/2092) - “hanging” 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) **GitHub activity:** - [Missing actions for file extensions in the hosting/discovery xml · Issue #4690 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4690) - opening dot / ott as normal documents - what should they do - for viewing – needs to set in the integration (Andras) - – can change in discovery … readonly mode would be fine. - Must be a setting to treat these as normal docs (Michael) - we should have that on all the time in the core. - Multiple pulls from Andreas K - some reviewed, related to sidebar & style previews – nice to make them look better. **Nextcloud bits (Julien)** - Font pieces: - Julien has the JSON structure he needs, had a call with Tor; an issue regarding symlinks. - Already fixed & merged. - Auto-updating / re-starting of forkit on changes is done where necessary. - 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 juliushaertl · Pull Request #4254 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4254) (Szymon) - is now merged – with client settings -remembered. - @Mentions – Kendy working on breaking this into pieces for Rash to implement. - Design is mostly there – Rash to look at this next. **Design bits (Pedro)** - Tooltip on the close button – now says it closes the document. - If you close quickly can we loose data ? - No (Michael) - if you see this scream and shout and file bugs – no need to wait for auto-save. - And don’t stop shouting until it is fixed: we should never loose data. - Ash – needs to know about this. - Dialogs that are not JSDialogs, or Vex, some leaflet thing … - eg. ‘Repair document’ dialog … problems with alignment / close button. - Can we list them ? (Michael) - seems this repair thing is the last one … it is an overlay / popup etc.(Pedro) - Formula-bar fixes in 21.11 to cleanup - Not on master – because Szymon has re-worked formular-bar there. - Notebookbar fixes – sizing of items is got right, and id convention fixed. - Dark mode discussion: [Add a dark mode · Issue #4382 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4382) - AI: Kendy had a look at this to come up with a design (Kendy) - Spark-lines: - what is that ? (Nicolas) - good to have data trends – mini charts in cells without - already included – missing icons fixed in notebookbar thanks to Andreas K. - cool to use link to avoid duplication (Pedro) - need to write this up in the forum. - Print area management in calc is implemented. **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. - Not decided on the date yet,; hope to in a short while. - Working on new features: eg. formula-bar improvements. - Delta work on the feature branch. **Grammar work (Mert)** - Have a new dummy checker that builds, trying to register & show this in the options menu - then checking the interface - Kendy is helping out here. - Building it into the core – in lingucomponent. - Good to have an on-prem install of the server (Nicolas) - good if the API endpoint is easy to configure - this is the plan (Mert) **Other ongoing work (Pranam)** - Context menu of multi-selected herow/col aders in calc now fixed. **Next Meeting** 05/04/2022 ---
**Author:** ![joergmschulz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/joergmschulz/32/953_2.png) [@joergmschulz](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/joergmschulz)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-70/1074/2 "2022-04-28T13:12:59Z")
welcome screen: Are you aware of the discussions > > > \*\*Describe the bug\*\* > > The welcome screen is disabled in the configuration file… but it is still shown after every version update. > > \*\*To Reproduce\*\* > Steps to reproduce the behavior: > > 1. Disable the welcome screen: \`coolconfig set welcome.enable false\` > 2. Verify that the welcome screen has been disabled in \`coolwsd.xml\`: > \`\`\`xml > \ > \false\ > \ > 3. Restart coolwsd > 4. Open a document as a new user > 5. Welcome screen is shown although it has been disabled > > \*\*Expected behavior\*\* > > Welcome screen should not pop up. > > \*\*Actual behavior\*\* > > Welcome screen is shown although it has been disabled > > \*\*Desktop (please complete the following information)\*\* > - OS: Debian Bullseye > - Browser: Mozilla Firefox > - Version: 91.7.0esr-1~deb10u1 > > \*\*Additional context\*\* > > This happened when updating from coolwsd 21.11.2.4-1 to 21.11.3.4-1. and [Office: Alternatives since Collabora introduced nagware with possibility to track users - #10 by erfus - 🍱 Features & apps - Nextcloud community](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/office-alternatives-since-collabora-introduced-nagware-with-possibility-to-track-users/138236/10) ? Seems like the end user tracking by the welcome screen is a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![pedro.silva](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/pedro.silva/32/4_2.png) [@pedro.silva](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/pedro.silva)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 6:25am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-70/1074/3 "2022-04-29T06:25:56Z")
Thanks @joergmschulz for the heads up 🙂