Community Weekly Meeting #138

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Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #138

Date: Oct 05th 2023

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Attendees (write your name):

• Andras, Anna, Ezinne, Mike D, Attila, Caolán, Darshan, Hub, Szymon, Timur, Cosmin, Skyler, Pedro, Bayram, Michael, Gökay

Today: let’s go over the important sections and then devote some time to test Calc.

Document split

1. Horrible problem with shared links … Pedro in a different document:
2. overwrite / confirm etc.
3. steps: duplicate blank document in Nextcloud, rename it, edit it, share an (editable) link to it
   1. other people enter a different document with the shared …
4. Ticket: # … Split document. shared link vs logged in using Nextcloud · Issue #7256 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
5. So it seems there is another richdocuments bug: File shared by link cannot be collaboratively edited · Issue #3187 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub

Release schedule

1. Next CODE 23.05.5 released scheduled for next week (week 41)
2. Mobile releases
3. Next (Android/iOS) release 23.05.5 to be released in week 43

Online activity

• Atilla
  • Working on redlines
  • Navigator problem related with different users using different UI language → causing Navigator to glitch (flikr)
    • Maybe: The client only loads the localized string and is not aware of the ID
    • Szymon: Navigator works the same way as the normal sidebar and that doesn’t happen with normal sidebar so… probably there is a core problem related solely with Navigator.
• PRs without reviewer 2, now 0
  • Collabora Online · GitHub
    • Add cli option to use settings from env variables by Minion3665 · Pull Request #7160 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → Ash to review Skyler’s patch → Andras reviewed, merged
    • Mostly done on arrow keys traversing notebookbar PR → Gokay to review it → find someone else
• Szymon
  • Now working on improve copy/paste workflow
  • Fixed regression on mobile where we were not able to scroll spreadsheets outside of the data
• Darshan
  • Working around performance → memory usage profiling
  • WIP : Add KIT in process mode by Darshan-upadhyay1110 · Pull Request #7329 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
• Michael / Caolan – Performance
  • We were not optimized in staging perf →
    • perf-staging compiled with -O0 · Issue #7337 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
    • Andras: it should be now
  • Need to catch up with the next profiles …
  • Now when online crashes the document saves (quarantine now has the document in it)
• Testing results:
  • Dark mode now working nicely.
  • Found some good problems from calc:
    • calc performance with large selections - copy/paste · Issue #6893 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub – getTextSelection
      • may be a red-herring.
  • Presentation starting – accelerated this (Timur)
    • still – with a large presentation – can take too long.
    • AI: can we have a progress bar ticket filed (Caolan)
      • have a progress bar – for the standard desktop mode so far.
    • And switch the ticket to enhancement to speed things up.
• Bayram
  • working on Calc: sheet tab: triggering context menu switches tabs · Issue #7354 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
• Cosmin
  • 2 PRs, 1 issue
    • Minor fix with python script → merged
    • Enable "Set Background Image" button in tabbed view by cosminh11 · Pull Request #7346 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → Gokay to review it
    • Issue: Calc: new sheets are not always added in order with high CPU
• Skyler
  • Working on STYLEREF
    • Worked on fixing tests
      • CI is going now, not sure if it’ll pass but it’s failing less than before
    • Field reference types don’t always seem to set properly
      • Fixed
  • Working on iOS development
    • Calc tab menu not showing properly
      • calc: Show tabs context menu on a tablet's press by Minion3665 · Pull Request #7301 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → merged
    • Buttons staying pressed due to :hover emulation
      • Switch hover to JS to stop touch-hover emulation by Minion3665 · Pull Request #7295 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → Szymon is reviewing, thanks!
    • Videos do not work on iOS
      • 2 problems here
        • Range header not supported
          • Made a patch: Allow http Range header for media files by Minion3665 · Pull Request #7367 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → Reviewed by Michael & feedback addressed, to re-review
        • Content inside SVG foreign element displays in the wrong place in some circumstances, looks like this bug: 23113 – Layer content inside HTML in SVG foreignObject renders in the wrong place
          • Probably this won’t get solved anytime soon, I’m looking for a workaround
    • RTL gives calc black overlay on iOS
      • Is on the server because tile dumping shows fully black tiles
      • Seems to be an iOS issue not a tablet mode issue
      • Made this PR while debugging: Fix tile dumping when /tmp is not temporary directory by Minion3665 · Pull Request #7352 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
        • Needs review
        • Could possibly be expanded to other instances of /tmp?
• Timur
  • Firefox bug: rendering horizontal line
    • Login
  • Lots of tickets to test … on Android app, reporting bugs for COOL
    app to TDF bugzilla – cleaning this up a bit.
    • What failed in 6.4 is now working nicely in 21 and 23.05
    • Some using LibreOffice Viewer for 7.6 alpha …
    • F-Droid: they should just side-load our APKs, there is an additional android repo. 21.11 is the latest there, and snapshot is 6.4 …
      • AI: look at updating the snapshot repo there from the Jenkins job (Andras)
• Mike D

  • "Ordered List" Sidebar Button Does Not Work 2nd Time · Issue #7248 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub

    • Sidebar + ordered list button seems bugged.
    • Can’t go from:
      • 1. → a) → 1.
    • Timur reproduce it, has a video

  • Can go:

    • 1. → a)
    • then button acts strange.

  • Format > "Bullets and Numbering" > Outline = Crash · Issue #7254 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub

    • Crash in Format > “Bullets and Numbering” menu:
      • Highlight a list.
      • Format > “Bullets and Numbering”
      • “Outline” tab
      • Choose any
      • = CRASH.
• Gokay
  • working on comment replies – will be able to separate these from other comments when created at the same position
    • currently if at the same word they look like replies – will be more user-friendly.
    • Prepared PR Writer: Set parent / child relationship in UI. by gokaysatir · Pull Request #7200 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub waiting for tests to pass → merged
  • Assigned accessKeys to buttons within the shortcuts component. Example: small save icon assigned to 1 → merged
    • Integrators can set that accessKey when inserting the button → merged
    • SDK docs updated: …
  • Next → Make copy paste user flow easier
• Hubert
  • Working on improving SDK examples
    • Now adding the theming bits into the SDK
  • Next: framed.doc.html where we have the SDK example after doing the make run
• Attila
  • Now working on redline (tracking changes)
  • Idea: I think we should improved the tracking changes dialog , icons etc
    • Szymon the problem is that in core we are using a more complex widget and we need to extend the widget we are using on online

Forum (Mike D)

• Clipboard API paste with mouse contextual menu
  • Ctrl+V / Clipboard API question…
  • (I doubt we’ll get an extension or anything like Google Docs… but unsure how to answer this one besides “No?”.)

And here were a few that you+me pinged in Support channel too:

• Bump to version 23.05.4.2.1 causing weird menu with English and Brazilian Portuguese words
  • Looks like pt + pt-BR translation has “still in English” menus going on? (Missing/Different translated files?)
  • Add &lang=pt or &lang=pt-BR to the end of Collabora document URL to test different language UIs.
  • Looks like French and German menus are translated, so it’s not affecting all languages.
• Issues with Chromebooks
  • Content of files not displayed on Chromebook - #7 by beadgirl
  • Support said devs might not have Chromebooks to test on(?).
• Local odt files cannot be edited via Collabora iPadOS-App withot crashing instanty
  • Issues with Collabora (iPad version) + ODT files from very old Collabora
  • Waiting on problematic files…

16 → 18 - zero replies in user support:

→ User Support - Collabora Online

35 → 36 - zero replies in installation and config:

→ Installation & Configuration - Collabora Online

Community

• Nextcloud Conference (September 16–17) just before the LibreOffice Conference (September 20–23)
  • Nextcloud Conference 2023 keynote speaker: Max Schrems - Nextcloud
• LibreOffice conference Bucharest
  • People had fun, good to meet each other etc.

Next meeting

12/10/2023