Community Weekly Meeting #133

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Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #133

Date: Aug 24th 2023

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Attendees

• Michael M, Mike D, Skyler, Oli, Darshan, Andras, Szymon, Rashesh, Aron, Caolán, Gökay

Release schedule

• Code release for next week
  • code freeze Monday evening.
  • Updated weblate & asked translators to catch-up.
  • Reviewing patches & trying to get everything in for the deadline
  • expect this around the 30th of August.
• Mobile releases probably early next month
  • Still in the plans – need to get a clear picture of blockers
  • If they exist – asked Ezinne to do some testing.
  • IOS
    • Attila fixed the navigator issues.
  • Android (Rashesh)
    • All PRs are merged
    • New PRs are coming … when we open chart wizard for the 1st time – were getting something empty: fixing that.
      • Another related to dark mode: a new option to change this in mobile view
      • we have a fix for this.
      • Updating some Java dependencies.

Online activity (Pedro)

• Pedro is out on vacation for ten days.
• PRs without reviewer 6
  • Collabora Online · GitHub
    • chore(helm): update annotations for community haproxy-ingress by genofire · Pull Request #7042 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → Rash after hack-week
    • others we can find people for.
• Oli
  • Up and down arrow keys should move focus up/down a level · Issue #6933 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
    • got merged → arrow keys getting focus in/out of notebookbar tab buttons
  • Make jsdialogs capture keydown events in Impress by CosmicOli · Pull Request #7151 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
    • arrow keys should be handled by jsdialog – not escaping the view
      • occurred in impress
  • Next: working on improving arrow key focus in notebookbar
• Szymon
  • Also working font previews (so the font drop-down menu will display the font name in its font)
    • finished – need some styling input from Pedro – to make it beautiful.
    • What’s the performance impact: cached in the core, also in the browser, we fetch only the visible ones too.
      • Stored in JS / browser array.
    • Could we use a preview via https:// that the browser could cache locally.
    • We’re not aware of what we’re downloading: 2nd entry of combo-box with this name: makes that tougher …
  • Added missing JSDialog widgets
    • will be able to run the URL dialog from the core now.
• Darshan
  • WIP: Print single calc sheet: [ WIP ] Add option for print sheet by Darshan-upadhyay1110 · Pull Request #7035 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
    • On-hold waiting for Nick’s exportas work.
  • Hack-week: shortcut for sheet changes – moving between them.
    • Updated the help information on this too.
    • Looking at ordered & un-ordered list; ctrl-shift-l doesn’t get usual bullet point.
      • Unordered List Keyboard Shortcut by Darshan-upadhyay1110 · Pull Request #7122 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub => unordered list
    • Opening the user-list with a shortcut key. Open user list box using keyboard ( CTRL + SHIFT + P) by Darshan-upadhyay1110 · Pull Request #7121 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
• Michael / Caolan – Performance
  - Performance improvements for comments in spreadsheets → now merged:
  - cool#6911 calc comment positions are now cell addresses by caolanm · Pull Request #6988 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  - Draw calc note indicator browser side by caolanm · Pull Request #7001 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  - loading quicker which is nice …propagated from different sheets.
  • Did some work on export performance improvement
  • “ch units” bug Github Issue #6984 fixed in core.
    • Bug #101895 - Paragraph dialog units shown as “ch” and “lines” when “Enable char unit” is enabled by default
• Testing results:
  • a hang when typing quickly, we get a problem each 10 characters
  • Caolan seeing dark-mode tiles from time to time …
    • someone else toggled into dark-mode and Caolan got it.
    • Reading & code review needed on dark-mode …
  • Found some good problems from calc:
    • calc performance with large selections - copy/paste · Issue #6893 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub – getTextSelection nightmare which we try to do on keypress – consuming vast memory & time. → probably needs more info.
  • Lots of logging churning on the console → disabled this and started re-profiling.
    • “Client session not found to forward message”
    • “Aug 24 10:33:57 cp-staging-eu-perf coolwsd[14198]: wsd-14198-14259 2023-08-24 10:33:57.905319 +0000 [ docbroker_001 ] WRN Client session [06c] not found to forward message: o31003 invalidatetiles: part=0 x=5740 y=39145 width=5315 height=316 wid=6757| wsd/DocumentBroker.cpp:3625”
      • lots of those…
  • Seems that things are way smoother without the delay when we are not saturating the log … which is good =) …
  • AI: cleanup the debug display of other sheets’ invalidations in calc (Caolan)
    • different color – eg. blue, and much more transparent (?)
• Skyler
  • Busy with using UNO with websocket
    • https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/154680
      • working through review comments.
      • Pushed lots of changes to gerrit.
    • Wrote a small python server to bridge websockets to regular tcp sockets (GitHub - Minion3665/collabora--urp-ws-proxy: A websocket proxy for interpreting UNO Remote Protocol (presumably transmitted between COOLWSD and a client of your choice)). Why not Java/C++? I though it would be easier to get it going and it won’t be needed by the end.
  • Collabora Online hangs locally: Collabora Online connections hang when a relative LO path is used · Issue #7041 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
    • was a relative path building problem.
  • On holiday next week.
• Timur
  • on holiday.
• Mike D
  • "Help > Online Help" Disappears After Pressing "Keyboard Shortcuts" · Issue #7148 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  • Pressing Help > Keyboard Shortcuts causes “Online Help” button to disappear.

Forum (Mike D)

These were the key topics:

• Topic 1: Alt Keys + Docker + Not working in Calc/Impress???
  • ‘Alt’ key does not works with Calc and Impress
  • Person had issues with ALT shortcuts + docker container.
  • Looks liked it worked in Writer, but not in Calc/Impress?
    • Expected – and Gokay is fixing it it will be in the 23.05.3 release next week.
• Topic 2: Nextcloud “Talk” + “Collabora Online” interaction
  • Video windows doesn't switch between participants while editing a shared document
  • Talk video window doesn't switch between participants while editing · Issue #7046 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
  • This was an issue from a few weeks back.
  • He finally submitted a lot more info.
  • (I also added that his info into the Github Issue, so that it’ll all link together. )
  • I asked for more clarification, but to me, it seems like it’s a Nextcloud Talk “issue”, not necessarily anything to do with Collabora.
• Topic 3: Google Docs’s “IMPORTRANGE” support?
  • Referencing ranges in other sheets
  • Google Docs Help: “IMPORTRANGE”
  • Loading external documents is a problem for our architecture:
    • each document in its own jail … its an issue we should address.

Still unanswered from two weeks ago:

• This person asking about Japanese Phonetic Guides:
  • Unable to use phonetic guides
    • when you learn – you get the Latin alphabet first
      • the CJK character is used, with latin chars above for learners
        • Ruby/Asian-phonetic guides.
    • Lets ask what is missing ? … - send a screenshot.
      • LibreOffice 7.5 Help: “Asian Phonetic Guide”
      • Wikipedia.org: “Ruby Characters”
      • One of my older Reddit posts on LO + Japanese Ruby Text
        16 → 17 - zero replies in user support:
        → User Support - Collabora Online
        62 → 62 - zero replies in installation and config:
        → Installation & Configuration - Collabora Online

Community

• Nextcloud conference just before the LibreOffice one
• Will be in Bucharest – and Gabriel will be organizing it too.
  • LibreOffice Conference 2023 in Bucharest, Romania - The Document Foundation Blog
  • Registration is now open
  • You are invited to the “Introduction in LibreOffice Development” workshop:
    • Learn about LibreOffice development at our upcoming conference! - The Document Foundation Blog
    • Workshop: Introduction to LibreOffice Development » LibreOffice Conference 2023
    • Bucharest, Romania 2023 » LibreOffice Conference 2023

Next meeting

31/08/2023