Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #80
Date: June 07 2022
All minutes published on: Meeting Minutes - Collabora Online
Attendees (write your name):
- Pedro, Julius, Ezinne, Szymon, Andras, Michael, Ezinne, Andras, Thorsten, Nicolas, Gokay
Nextcloud bits (Raul)
- 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
- It only allows 1 to 1 mime-type to app
- Already a PR prepared : Add `openWith` function to OCA.Viewer by Raudius · Pull Request #1273 · nextcloud/viewer · GitHub
- It will allow different apps to open different files via context menu
- Julius took over this and already checked it, code looks sane. Just needs to get extra feedback
- Maybe more things that can be improved on how we report things back to the user → Probably will wrap this up in a new ticket in CO GitHub
- Maybe a docker image issue, missing files (?) → will file an issue and cc Andras so it can enter in the next minor CODE release (soonish) https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4993
Nicolas
- On Code 22.05 formula bar expansion does not work as expected
- It goes super tall occupying the whole screen
- Guidelines (“smart guides): showing automatic (temporary) guides while moving elements
- Guidelines when working with presentations: the possibility of grabbing guides from ruler and remove them by moving it back to the ruler area
- Want COOL to be a tool that quickly creates impressive content
- LanguageTool & DeepL help too …
- Lots of excited people testing LanguageTool (Pedro)
- people pay attention to that; though we didn’t promote it hard yet.
- Cool to know that LanguageTool offers also on-permise etc
- (Andras) Thanks, I can confirm that. We will be doing some more documentation and marketing around how to setup etc
Forum (Pedro)
- Rashesh keeps asking more logs
- Regarding "Document loading failed" - NGINX, no Docker · Issue #4966 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
- It seems it’s something that keeps bites us (already reported in other places)
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Failed to load Nextcloud Office · Issue #4828 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
- But this was a problem on the user side
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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 ?
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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
- Szymon: the removal was intentional as it wasn’t supported
GitHub activity (Pedro and Ezinne)
- Ezinne: we have discussed a plan on how to organize better GitHub issues so to help us keep track of them
- 2 news labels. One for needs info for the issues that are stall and need some log messages etc from the suers; Another one for the enhacements thatt we do not plan in the near future to develop (we ended up not creating a one for this and just reuse enhancement)
- WE have new contributor (thanks Szymon and its easy hack Replace magic numbers with keycode constants · Issue #4929 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub )
- Thanks to Rimuruweb for replaced magic numbers :D by Rimuruweeb · Pull Request #4961 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
- Szymon: A PR on Keycodes, the idea is to replace the magic numbers with human redable numbers… Still needs some update from the contributor
Delta work (Michael)
- It seems be working as we expected.
- Saves up to 75% of bandwidth, with smaller CPU wins.
- There are some more bits coming in soon wrt. CPU improvements.
Design bits (Pedro and others)
- Lots of formula-bar fixes and improvements that go in to master
- There is still an extra PR awaiting for tests to pass
- Removed CSS stuff that we don’t need
- Content Controls
- All done
- Plus a small fix
- Improvements around User avatar list and fix for weird overlapping and not closing the popover
- WE also have now additional indicator for the person we are following
- Still the “Following” string needs translation (only on master)
- Backported → Still some last polishing to go
- Context menu unreadable menu entries on mouseover → this got fixed (only on master)
- Context menu padding → also fixed
Release Schedule (Gokay)
- CODE 22.05 minor release next week
- stability fixes included.
- We stopped releasing CODE 21.11
Other ongoing work
- (Ezinne): taking la ook to all the Github issues but they do share a common problem: difficult to reproduce (probably users are not feeding us enough info)
- Tried to help people on how to show (picture or log) but it ends up not being a bug but it is actually how it supposes to be
- But I need some inputs from Kendy: Notes for presentations · Issue #4937 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
- (Kendy) best way to answer is to say that it is not in our short term plans to add that but we can most def. Add to our list of possible enhancements etc
- (Kendy) maybe worth it to close it after? Or maybe let it open in the case someone wants to work
- (Pedro) Maybe we could create a different label/tag for these type of issues
- Ezinne already add the correct tag/label
Next Meeting
14/07/2022