# Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #74 **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Tags:** meeting-minutes\ **Created:** [May 26, 2022, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-74/1134 "2022-05-26T10:47:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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**Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #74** Date: May 19 2022 All minutes published on: [Meeting Minutes - Collabora Online](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14) **Attendees (write your name):** - Pedro, Michael, Ezinne, Rashes, Szymon, Pedro, Aron, Andras, Gokay, Kendy ## Sidebar (Michael) - showing up oddly – when people join ? Seems like some cross-talk. - Need to port fix to master (Szymon) # Grammar checking (Kendy) - Mert is on vacation, but 2 weeks before 7.4 deadline - in time for inclusion there. - Presented at the ESC – some good points - should include a link to the privacy policy. - General support for including it. - Multiple colors got done too. - **Next** - Testing dis-connect / re-connect etc. and thread hanging. - Add an HTTP timeout on the request – and configure that. - Including this into COOL & documenting it. **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) - 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) - No news – didn’t have time to work on this - Improve group\_download\_as xml option (having the download options within a dropdown) - icon shared with the UX team they’re happy with it. - Need to have some time to get the PR in (Pedroforum-wise) - would like to share the same drop-down logic from elsewhere - discussed with szymon, looks ok, needs to be reviewed - Alex moved from 1&1 from April 1st. **Welcome updates (Gokay)** - Still working on improvements – most will be in the next CODE release not this one. - 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)** - Interesting report re: Android/tablet – a crash opening documents … - Aron answered – user not able to get logcats … - Pedro added instructions on logging app so we can get details. - Would be good to have a topic on how to test & get logs to file issues. - [Can't Open Files on Android version 9 Tablet - #4 by workyg](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/cant-open-files-on-android-version-9-tablet/1129/4) - Improved the spam filter for the forum - Improving our Kubernetes documentation would be good - some questions in the forum there. **GitHub activity (Pedro)** - Easy hack: Hunting & removing code related to the old formula bar: - [Remove unused CSS related to old formulabar · Issue #4821 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4821) - good to get rid of this – now we’re JSDialog’ing - PR with more improvements re: formula bar … - [Private/pedro/jsformulabar input height n width by pedropintosilva · Pull Request #4820 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4820) - some other bits still need work but this improves things – re: alignments / height etc. - Contributors: - a bunch of PR’s from Andreas K – reviewed them. - Any story with tests failing ? … - Szymon can look at it ? - Compat view / tabbed view icons: (from Andreas) - [Compact View isn't part of Sidebar, Statusbar by Andreas-Kainz · Pull Request #4782 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4782) - a nice PR – fixes the order of the icons; - had some discussions & changes there. Need to get them in. - would like help to get the tests to pass … - **AI:** help diagnose that (Rashesh) - Remove CSS vars - [btns var color name fixes by Andreas-Kainz · Pull Request #4799 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4799) - reviewed, approved – like help making tests pass too (Rashesh) - merged it → couldn’t have caused problems. - JS Sidebar (Szymon) - [jssidebar simplify by Andreas-Kainz · Pull Request #4776 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/4776) - Simplify JS sidebar → tackles LTR/RTL problems … - ideally as a few smaller commits to understand it. - Really helps to bisect / test each commit. - CollboraOnline [github.io](http://github.io) security update - [Bump minimist from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 in /themes/hugo-theme-chunky-poster by dependabot[bot] · Pull Request #40 · CollaboraOnline/CollaboraOnline.github.io · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/CollaboraOnline.github.io/pull/40) - relates only to the community website – NPM dependency updated. - **Dark Mode** - general dark mode issue [Add a dark mode · Issue #4382 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4382) - have a solution for rendering tiles (Kendy) - just needs implementing. ## Deltas - was seeing half of something – missing content (Szymon & Pedro) **Nextcloud bits (Julius)** - Julius out. - Widget re-worked, no indicator to see which person you clicked to follow - in the widget – when you press “follow someone” keeps following even if you edit - should stop when you start to edit – as happens on a map. - 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) - looked like the preview requests may have caused the file-locking - clone & wait for the preview to render does it still occur ? Can we work around that ? - Could we send a preview as we save ? (Michael) - added a built-in preview mechanism for ODF files - Preview is/was kind of small … - could delay that (Michael) - Can also find a way to make preview generation not lock files (Julius) - Font pieces: - Tor working to fix font mgmt issues in live deployment - Meeting – minutes in the forum: - [font call minutes ...](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/font-call-minutes/1131) - Desktop / PC locking / launching feature → next for Tor. - Getting locking information and then we can discuss how CO can pick up those details - Detecting guests form CheckFileInfo results ? (Michael) - there is a ticket for that (Gokay) **Design bits (Pedro)** - 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) - **AI:** can we turn this into an easy hack & close the topic (Michael) - Dark mode discussion: [Add a dark mode · Issue #4382 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4382) - We treat this as an extra attribute for normalized-views cf. Watermarks … - Added icons for missing content-controls - had some inconsistencies with labelling, were getting them from UNO commands - were getting big labels there which looked odd, now fixed & approved by Rashesh **22.05 bits (Gokay)** - CODE beta release for developers this week : ready today. - Will announce tomorrow. - Delta work got merged → and seems to (mostly) work. **Other ongoing work (Kendy)** - Rash working on Content Controls - using JSDialog drop-down - Rash started working on @mentions – notification etc. - adding the federated ID to the comment author – after the document is round-tripped. - Ash is working on video embedding / playback - Working on other bugs: crashes & problems related to tunnelled dialogs. **Next Meeting** 02/06/2022