Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #160
Date: Mar 14th 2024
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Attendees (write your name):
- Andras, Méven, Ezinne, Darshan, Hub, Caolán, Pedro, Mike D, Anna, Szymon, Skyler, Meven, Bayram, Timur, Attila, Gulsah, Cor, Vivek, Michael
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 Beta 24.04 some delays here
- Working on it
- Mobile releases
- Not well-planned
Nicolas
- Nothing to share
Julius
- Open in new tab by default (?)
- No news on internal discussions yet
- Pedro: It was agreed to have it as a setting
- No news on internal discussions yet
- 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
- 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.
- WOPI end-point not supporting range requests (Julius)
- Issue affecting Android users now fixed and released in the latest RC: Releases · nextcloud/android · GitHub
- Collabora not loading existing documents in app v3.27.0 · Issue #12338 · nextcloud/android · GitHub and the fix was merged last month: Fix collabora files not loading by JonasMayerDev · Pull Request #12349 · nextcloud/android · GitHub
- Released this week → awaiting for user feedback
- @Nnamani Ezinne Martina 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 juliushaertl · Pull Request #3462 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub
- New version of Richdocuments will be released
very soon→ released 3 days ago: chore(release): Bump version to 8.3.2 by juliushaertl · Pull Request #3507 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub chore(release): Bump version to 8.2.5 by juliushaertl · Pull Request #3508 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub
Online activity
- Bugs while in the text document
- Well, I was testing the comment feature, at some point I couldn’t add the comment, then I scrolled down and saw lots of white tiles, the file became very slow for me, people’s mouses behaved strange. I have record (Anna )
- Help > About “Copy” button not working (on Share)
- Chrome 122.0.6261.94 + 23.05.9.2snapshot (git hash: 9831402)
- Attila
- Working on: PPTX display placeholder in slideshow
159258 – A picture placeholder with a background, imported from PPTX, is not shown when presenting
PR: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/164365
got some suggestions on review for other solution to make it less ugly…
mostly I got some other problem, but still trying an other solution to make it work - working on a slide transition performance issue:
153162 – 8s delay before being able to transition to slide from empty slide (- preparing animated GIF?)
No real update yet… will try to optimise setpixel parts…
- Working on: PPTX display placeholder in slideshow
- PRs without reviewer 3 → now 5
- Collabora Online · GitHub
- PRs for 23.05 should have 2 reviewers
- Szymon
- Fixed CI on online/master for Cypress - desktop
- More TypeScript in master:
- removing w2ui, only w2toolbar left to do…
- Darshan
- WIP: Various issues with paragraph formatting options in mobile view
- Mobile-view: paragraph section fixes #8492
- Fix image path for base spin field icons
- Do not hide or show elements which are force to be hidden in mobile view
- Backport PR: backport mobile wizard paragraph section fixes by Darshan-upadhyay1110 · Pull Request #8517 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub ( Needs approval from Pedro)
- LTR/RTL buttons, it can’t be seen which one is selected
- Hide “add and resize option” in image section of Bullets and numbring
- Mobile-view: paragraph section fixes #8492
- WIP: Various issues with paragraph formatting options in mobile view
- Vivek
- Work in progress - Scroll bar animation on mouse hover event (Pause)
- Conditional formatting: It should override other formatting => Pause
- AI (Pedro) Chase conditional format icon related bug (zooming )
- Michael Performance
- Background saving for 24.04
- various re-factors & required Socket features being pushed
- discovered our wakeup pipes have been dragged around everywhere
- and used in sub-processes (it seems)
- verifying file-descriptor count is tricky – in the Kit - /proc privileges …
- Background saving for 24.04
- Caolan performance:
- comphelper::rng takes a mutex for every random number https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/164382
- Fun optimization to avoid atomic increment/decrement on calc hot path
- Working on making SvNumberFormatter lockless
- Testing results:
- Dark mode now working nicely.
- Found some good problems from calc:
- https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/isues/6893 – getTextSelection
- may be a red-herring.
- https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/isues/6893 – getTextSelection
- Bayram
- (In Progress): Bug (Enhancement) “Support Power Query in XLSX”
- Bugzilla: 158857 – Keep Power Query when saving XLSX
- Patch (WIP) : https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/164290 (Mentor: Caolán)
- sent 2 new patchsets
- Status : Implementing the feature.
- Implement step by step. (for each missing files, references, ids and tags)
- Missing files/folders: xl/connections.xml , xl/queryTables/ *, xl/tables/_rels/ *, (and some references, ids and tags)
- DONE → write missing xml element into [Content_Types].xml file.
- DONE → create missing xl/connections.xml and write contents manually
- Now → use GrabBag to write into xl/connections.xml
- next:
- import&export queryTables
- write xl/queryTables/* references into [Content_Types].xml
- (In Progress): Bug (Enhancement) “Support Power Query in XLSX”
- Skyler
- Fix for small screens with wide JSDialogs
- Waiting on another review to backport
- backport: Make JSDialogs fully reachable when wider than the screen by Minion3665 · Pull Request #8520 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
- Pinch-zoom movement issues
- Szymon got back to me with pointers yesterday (thanks Szymon!), so I’m working on that now
- Following pill zoom
- This wasn’t a zoom issue, but there is also a zoom issue
- It was a font size issue, here’s a PR I’m waiting for a review on: Stop following text overflowing chip by Minion3665 · Pull Request #8481 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
- Stop following when you start typing
- Working on sheet header context menu for iOS
- calc: fix header context menu on touch devices by Minion3665 · Pull Request #8311 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub – my PR, we don’t want this because it puts hammer.js into a file when we want to remove hammer.js
- Merge onContextMenu and onLongPress events. by gokaysatir · Pull Request #8510 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub – gokay’s PR, doesn’t seem to work for me on iOS, maybe it’s still in progress?
- Fix for small screens with wide JSDialogs
- Pranam
- Done:
- Visual feedback for operations of tracked comments (show/hide changes, indication of delete)
- Current:
- Moving shapes in impress while editing texts inside
- Fixing issues with comments layout in writer
- Done:
- Gökay
- Current:
- The first commits for read only Online features are in.
- Now working on follow up tasks.
- The first commits for read only Online features are in.
- Current:
- Hubert
- Working on a Drupal integration
- Gulsah
- Impress bullet list: We need to prevent to add empty lines. Instead close the numbering
- Automatic font color problem in dark mode when we have background color
- Core is handling this case correctly. I’m trying to implement same logic in online too.
- Andras
- No update
- Pedro
- Custom Properties dialog fix
- Reviews and other fixes
- Neil
- Looking at tinderbox failures
- Fixed a horrible unit-test problem with racing between
kit_spare startup and tests - hopefully a long-term stability win for unit-test parallelisation
- Fixed a horrible unit-test problem with racing between
- Looking at tinderbox failures
- Timur
- Interested in knowing the status of Open with local editor fix from richdocuments. What happens when automatic backport fails
- A.I. (Pedro) to ping Julius
- Méven
- impress autoplay ppsx/pps support in review
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163652 merged in 24.04
- Impress: Allow to autostart in presentation mode by meven · Pull Request #8321 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub approved once, can land
- documentation for url query parameters url merged, Advanced integration — SDK https://sdk.collaboraonline.com/ documentation
- impress autoplay ppsx/pps support in review
- Mike
- #8499: View > Sidebar + Style dropdown.
- Every time you open it, the font size GROWS/shrinks for first/last font.
- #8499: View > Sidebar + Style dropdown.
Forum (Mike D)
10 posts done this week.
9 → 9 - zero replies in user support:
→ User Support - Collabora Online
37 → 36 - zero replies in installation and config:
→ Installation & Configuration - Collabora Online
Next events
- COOL Day 2024 – April 8 to 10, 2024, Cambridge, UK – COOL Days 2024 - 8-10 April - Cambridge, UK - Collabora Office and Collabora Online
- We are thrilled to announce COOL Days 2024, another exciting and enriching conference and team building event in the picturesque city of Cambridge!
- What to do next
- Passport & VISA
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Next meeting
- 21 /03/2024