# Status report: consultancy team, week 8, 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Status reports\ **Created:** [February 26, 2024, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/status-report-consultancy-team-week-8-2024/2412 "2024-02-26T09:56:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vmiklos](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/vmiklos/32/787_2.png) [@vmiklos](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/vmiklos)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/status-report-consultancy-team-week-8-2024/2412/1 "2024-02-26T09:56:30Z")
# Caolan - tdf#155961 try and clear a regression from my list, the gtk3 hover scrollbar in sidebar when its over the “more options” button doesn’t allow clicking the “more” button - crashtesting: suggest [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163591](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163591) to solve the remaining crashes from drawinglayer buffer rework thing - flicker: - debug writer flicker seen on share on lengthly docs - flicker - avoid invalidations from setting the initial theme - [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163650](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163650) - [init document theme during load by caolanm · Pull Request #8320 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8320) - get the initial rendering settings to describe the document right after loading so we only need to emit canonicalidchange if it changes from that - [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163650](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163650) - [set the initial rendering state before the first invalidateCanonicalId by caolanm · Pull Request #8329 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8329) - review [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163608](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163608) - suggest a way around turning off the calc one-char-per-line thing - ofz#66731 Crash in com:☀⭐:uno::BaseReference::iquery - reduce subarray usage [Private/caolanm/reduce subarray usage by caolanm · Pull Request #8333 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8333) - review stuff - spelling dialog crash → [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163691](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163691) - test the waters with a warning cleanup patch for fzstd to see if maintainer is active and willing to merge stuff → [Fix warnings by caolanm · Pull Request #13 · 101arrowz/fzstd · GitHub](https://github.com/101arrowz/fzstd/pull/13) - look at firefox profile for a bit - for profiling purposes merge fzstd into online and profile with it in place to see where the time goes → this works at least, so can see where time is spent better - figure out a way to get the text bounds of text inside a shape to send them to online - new crashtesting results wrt pie chart crash - tech planing, cool weekly meeting, calc standup, esc - have a look at the share long term profiling → calling SvtOptionsDrawinglayer::IsRenderSimpleTextDirect() which will always be true before rendering any text doesn’t help us much → [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163794](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163794) - rework anti-flicker change wrt miklos comments re getCommandValues - debug calc crash, apparently wrt online-spelling - this eludes me, there is a null-deref, but every path examined that might plausible previously set a null editengine appears to actually ensure a non-null editengine, most odd - it is true that calc is sharing its online-spelling state at the doc level and not the shell level (unlike writer) so that isn’t desirable looking → wip: [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163874](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163874) # Mike - LibreOffice stops working after cleaning temp directory \*\* Problem could be solved by passing bCreateParentDirs to lcl\_createName (called from CreateTempName\_Impl, called from TempFileNamed ctor) - see unotools/source/ucbhelper/tempfile.cxx \*\* Filed [159769 – Can't open ODF files when LibreOffice's lu\* subdirectory in system TEMP directory is deleted](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159769) \*\* [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163576](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163576) - Ticket#1004519 — LO hangs while callling createTextRangeByPixelPosition([…] \*\* Repro \*\* Thinking / trying to understand the deadlock and the way out \*\* Filed [159813 – Assertion failed when dragging-and-dropping text](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159813) and [159816 – Crash in drag-n-drop of multiple paragraphs with a bookmark](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159816) \*\* [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163683](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163683) - sqlite3.dll and libxml2.dll \*\* They reported that a deprecation warning breaks their (obviously --enable-werror) build \*\* 71d4abc51b556e147ab53a9a52b15be36fc710a3 \*\* But it worked on my system? \*\* Found out what was wrong in my config (didn’t drop --enable-nss) \*\* The patch above doesn’t work on Windows \*\* [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163704](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/163704) - File linked to image is not exported to ReqIF-XHTML \*\* Started \*\* Created a minimal reproducer \*\* Related to: Export of Caption for Images / OLE \*\* [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/153721](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/153721) # Miklos Worked on: - [Poor error handling when navigator.clipboard-based paste or paste special fails · Issue #8292 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/8292) - [159815 – Unexpected content inside content control with track changes and anchored images from DOCX](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159815) - [158986 – FILEOPEN: RTF: Extra page break](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158986)