# Community Weekly Meeting #157

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Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #157

Date: Feb 22nd 2024

All minutes published on: [Topics tagged meeting-minutes](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/tag/meeting-minutes)

**Please update your section**

Please update your section or create a new one if needed.

Calc testing: [https://share.collabora.com/index.php/s/A4Y7qtKQto9rDNi](https://share.collabora.com/index.php/s/A4Y7qtKQto9rDNi) pass: coolmeeting

# Attendees (write your name):

- Andras, Darshan, Gulsah, Anna, Attila, Pedro, Szymon, Mike D, Méven, Timur, Pranam, Hub, Caolán, Bayram, Ezinne, Skyler, Vivek, Cosmin

# Making the call shorter,

- Please update your section relating in the document before we read through it.
- Then only go over anything we need to share / get input on

# Release Schedule

- CODE 23.05.9.2 to be released on Tuesday
- Mobile releases
  - Android 23.05.7 Delay in Android release

# Antranig Vartanian

- Representing FreeBSD community
- Trying to pick WRT FreeBSD port
- Wants to contribute any FreeBSD work
- Andras Timar: Another contributor was working on that → Gleb P. was the community maintainer
  - So we ended up disabling the Cirrus CI (FreeBSD) because the service was broken
  - Antranig: it seems the image you were using was removed from Cirrus community

# Julius

- Open in new tab by default (?)
  - No news on internal discussions yet → Pedro: I think it was agreed to have it as a setting

- WASM
  - For now only in development branch of richdocuments, targetting Nextcloud 29

- Discussion with Pedro around open locally
  - General problem that we have no mechanism to “inform” Collabora about lock/permissions changes from the Nextcloud server
  - [Notify Collabora around changed document metadata · Issue #3421 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub](https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues/3421)
  - Ongoing discussion, probably continued next week with Michael

- Very large file access? (Michael)
  - WOPI end-point not supporting range requests (Julius)
    - is done for the webdav endpoints.

- Issue affecting Android users now fixed and released in the latest RC: [Releases · nextcloud/android · GitHub](https://github.com/nextcloud/android/releases)
  - [Collabora not loading existing documents in app v3.27.0 · Issue #12338 · nextcloud/android · GitHub](https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/12338) and the fix was merged last month: [Fix collabora files not loading by JonasMayerDev · Pull Request #12349 · nextcloud/android · GitHub](https://github.com/nextcloud/android/pull/12349)
  - Released this week → awaiting for user feedback
    - [@Nnamani Ezinne Martina](https://share.collabora.com/index.php/u/29d3b51e-56e9-103a-82ca-29a6537c569b) was testing: Ezinne: I tested the 3.28.0 version which was released on 13th Feb. Opening documents works using COOL 23.05.9.1

- Reset access token: #3462 : [fix: Handle Reset\_Access\_Token to generate a new token and reload by juliusknorr · Pull Request #3462 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub](https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/pull/3462)
  - **(AI: Hub)** Chase when the next richdocuments is released

# Online activity

- Bugs caught during this meeting
  - Error during post message handler  
Object { msgId: “Views\_List”, args: (25) […], deprecated: false }  
TypeError: e.UserId is undefined  
showEditor document.js:485  
showEditor document.js:484  
handlePostMessage postMessage.tsx:91  
handlePostMessage postMessage.tsx:85  
e postMessage.tsx:29
  - Fixed UI [backporting: Avatar list: set Unknown user avatar with 0 margin, fix alignment by pedropintosilva · Pull Request #8160 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8160)
  - Still would be nice to make sure integrator doesn’t send undefined id

- Attila
  - Working on: PPTX: text renders horizontally instead of vertically  
[151102 – FILEOPEN PPTX: text renders horizontally (and condensed) instead of vertically](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151102)  
fixed some review issue, fixed kerning problem, and a regression, and merged it..  
now fixing a vertical alignment problem now.
  - Working on: PPTX display placeholder in slideshow  
[159258 – A picture placeholder with a background, imported from PPTX, is not shown when presenting](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159258)  
still debugging to find where should we implement the missing render.

- PRs without reviewer 7 → now 4
  - [Collabora Online · GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/CollaboraOnline/projects/3/views/2)
  - PRs for 23.05 should have 2 reviewers

- Szymon
  - Calc view jumping:
    - fixed case with comment hover
    - found smaller issues on joining the file, missing comment marker on screen
    - trying to reproduce “jump on click”

  - Fixed message dialog in 24.04
  - Fixed “conflict” after rename in COOL in richdocuments:
    - probably it is a bug we had on this call previously
    - [Fixes #3492 joining after document is renamed inside editor by eszkadev · Pull Request #3493 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub](https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/pull/3493)

  - WIP More TypeScript in master

- Darshan
  - Document Repair does not work with non-English UI [8322](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8322) =\> **In Review**
  - Add filter content with entry widget in help tab for online-help dialogue =\> [8211](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8211) =\> **In Merged**
  - Handle separator case for tree Widget [8315](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8315) =\> **Merged**
  - Calc: Freeze pane lines (dividers) add visual hint for when there are covered cells #[8077](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8077) =\> **Merged**
  - Backport PR:
    - [Back port : Add search content in help dialog and fix document repair for non-Eng UI to 23.05 by Darshan-upadhyay1110 · Pull Request #8353 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8353) =\> **In Review**
    - [Backport to 23.05: Handle sperator case for tree Widget by Darshan-upadhyay1110 · Pull Request #8324 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8324) =\> **Merged**

  - Freeze column and row options are not consistent in notebook bar and in compact view. Plus need to do some enhancement by adding this option into context menu in Calc sheet =\> WIP

- Vivek
  - Work in progress - Scroll bar animation on mouse hover event **(pause)**
    - [Calc: Implement JavaScript animation on mouse event by codewithvk · Pull Request #7218 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/7218)

  - Renaming becomes available after rename by another user ([disable file renaming in readonly mode by codewithvk · Pull Request #8264 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8264) )=\> Merged.
  - Document Not Reloading After Rename (Issue : [Document Not Reloading After Rename [Only in Debug Mode] · Issue #8303 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/8303) ) =\> [Fix: Multiple Encoding of wopiSrc During Document Renaming by codewithvk · Pull Request #8326 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8326) =\> Merged
  - Make chart properties dialogs async: Part 2 =\> Remaining Few. =\> WIP

- Michael / Caolan – Performance
  - reduce unnecessary theme changes during document loading
    - [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163650](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163650) (merged to 24.04)
      - [init document theme during load by caolanm · Pull Request #8320 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8320) (online part, merged)

    - [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163666](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163666) (pending 24.04)
      - [set the initial rendering state before the first invalidateCanonicalId by caolanm · Pull Request #8329 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8329) (online part)

  - slow scrolling in Calc with comments
    - [getComputedStyle is very slow, but we don't need it for LTR comments by caolanm · Pull Request #8304 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8304) (merged, 23.05)

  - reduce subarray usage, potential candidate for Firefox scrolling perf issue
    - [Private/caolanm/reduce subarray usage by caolanm · Pull Request #8333 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8333) (merged, 24.04)

  - Next up chasing different width editing vs viewing in calc cell

- Testing results:
  - Dark mode now working nicely.
  - Found some good problems from calc:
    - [https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/isues/6893](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/6893) – getTextSelection
      - may be a red-herring.

- Bayram
  - (In Progress): Bug (Enhancement) “Support Power Query in XLSX”
    - Bugzilla: [158857 – Keep Power Query when saving XLSX](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158857)
    - STATUS : Research of missing files was completed.
    - Missing files/folders: **xl/connections.xml** , **xl/queryTables/** \*, **xl/tables/\_rels/** \*
    - **We must keep**
      - [Content\_Types].xml - (add missing lines)

      - – – – – – – – – – – – – xl/\* – – – – – – – – – – – –

      - **xl/connections.xml** - (missing - copy/paste)

      - **xl/\_rels/workbook.xml.rels** - (add missing lines)

      - **xl/drawings/** \* - (add missing lines)

      - **xl/queryTables/** \* - (missing - copy/paste)

      - **xl/tables/** \*

      - table2.xml.rels → table1.xml.rels (rename)

      - table3.xml.rels → table2.xml.rels (rename)