Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #78

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Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #78

Attendees (write your name):

• Pedro, Raul Fuentes, Mert, Ezinne, Rashesh, Szymon, Marco, Thorsten, Pranam

Nextcloud bits (Raul)

• Julius on vacation.
• Raul: introductions
• Raul – working on: Edit pdf files with Collabora Online isn't available any more · Issue #1894 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub
  • Had a look, knows when this started to happen
  • We probably need to introduce URL to communicate with Collabora (that points to the specific file)
  • UI rework by juliushaertl · Pull Request #1820 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub
  • Can see that the old code is there, but even if we enable that it will not work due to the new viewer
  • exposing edit option for PDF files with COOL.
  • Not a huge fan of the poplar stuff (Michael)
    • was some work started by Ash to do editability with pdfium (Kendy)
      • not really finished at the time.
      • performance of that was rather slow, and broke text very granularly.
    • Way to open PDFs was not in the context menu (Aron)
      • simpler – just for reading.

Grammar checking (Mert)

• Mert doing screenshare and letting us know how to test etc
  • New option from Core side
  • Working with language tool (works with free or non-free version)
  • New wavy lines appear, grammar suggestion are shown within the context menu
• Code is now merged with Kendy’s blessing
  • tested it for 22.05 for now.
  • config settings are there & all good.
• Mert onto DeepL integration when this is finished.

New cypress tests (Marco)

• cypress test for fullscreen presentation anim spin, grow and shrink by mcecchetti · Pull Request #4822 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
• Marco screenshares
• And explains new cypress tests around shapes and matrix involving transformations for impress animations
• PR needs someone to review test, actually Rash is on it already

Forum (Pedro)

• Can't change table border in tablet fullscreen layout
  • noticed missing ‘Miscellaneous’ section in the sidebar with two more table options – need to find out what is going on; is it possible to access them ? - missing a sidebar-group ?
  • Can’t change table border in tablet fullscreen layout from sidebar · Issue #4942 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  • Szymon will look into to see if we have it but in other place or if simply we don’t have the specific widget that allows those controls to come to life

GitHub activity (Pedro)

• Interesting enhancement request from Nicholas
  • missing him – would like snap-lines / guides:
  • As a user I need guides (helper lines) in the impress component to efficiently align objects on slides · Issue #4893 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  • discuss it next time (he is on vacations)
• Thanks to Andreas for the master-slide icon on tabbed view fix.
• Dark Mode
  • general dark mode issue Add a dark mode · Issue #4382 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  • have a solution for rendering tiles (Kendy)
    • just needs implementing.
    • Rizmut just pushed a new PR with icon fixes

Design bits (Pedro and others)

• Lots of formula-bar ergonomic fixes from Szymon (Szymon)
  • some shortcuts to improve too – lets see.
  • Also the other modifier problem was also fixed ! (to enter the formula bar’s inputfield vs enter in the cell)
    • But we should test it further on macOS
• Content Controls
  • improved the form tab where they are – so they look better, icons fixed.
  • Some polishing ongoing here that needs testing.
  • (Rashesh)
    • Date picker is not uggly
      • by changing directly (when safe) the JS ui theme and when not adding few CSS rules in our files
• Push buttons with images:
  • Fix images' alignment within pushbutton control, add flex classes by pedropintosilva · Pull Request #4912 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  • affecting buttons with icons – getting mis-aligned.
  • Improvements to all buttons across the board.
  • (Szymon): good. In the future we should try to reduce our different types of buttons and have more JS shared code (same for other widgets)

Other ongoing work

• (Ezynne): taking a look to all the Github issues but they do share a common problem: difficult to reproduce (probably users are not feeding us enough info)
• (Pranam): Trying to improve the writer comments (specially undo comments)
• (Szymon): Fixes for formula bar already enter ! Working on the incorrect layout on the sidebar (2 widgets on the row but should be vertically, e.g.: impress animation)
  • Probably related to duplicated Ids
  • Fixed calc dropdown list of item (position)
  • Unifying colour widget (now we have a single control for that) while fixing the colour that is shown when you open the dropdown
• Rash working on mobile views of content-controls
  • improvements to be merged