Weekly COOL meeting #96

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­Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #96

Date: Nov 10 2022

All minutes published on: Meeting Minutes - Collabora Online

Attendees (write your name):

  • Julius, Raul, Pedro, Szymon,Gökay, Gülşah, Nicolas, Kendy, Andras, Andreas K.

Gabriel (1&1)

  • wsd: add lang param to conversion #5359 → waiting for review (Ash) (goal is to enforce that lang param)
    • affects date type cells (default locale) → seems awesome.
    • AI (Pedro) : update SDK docs to add &lang=fr-FR or whatever.

Nicolas

Adfinis crowdfunding already live: Voice up your LibreOffice — Crowdfunding bei wemakeit

please tell Elisa she did a lot of great work on the crowdfunding, making the video, etc

Let’s share, spread the word All the money goes to fund the good work. The goal needs to be reach or else the money goes back to the people who donated

Release schedule (Gokay)

  • CODE 22.05 → this week
  • Next release week 50 so, master branch is ready for new feature work

Nextcloud bits (Julius)

Forum (Pedro)

  • Interesting use case from US Dog Club → AI (Pedro): Have a closer look and maybe get some user testing in other areas
  • Interesting reports on remote configuration → requested some more info
  • Getting error message when trying to print a document → it seems the error message is actually the fail to safe message → requested more info and debug copy paste
  • JSsidebar generated html → Hi Andreas K. Thanks for all the good effort, you rock!
  • Copy pasting disabled → got fixed

Dark mode

  • Andreas K.: Is dark mode in master branch?
  • Andreas K.: What about document page, will we have dark page and bright text?
    • Szymon: “mode” We already have implemented framework, a way to render the tiles 2 times
    • Andreas K. we also already have something like that in core see GH 4382#issuecomment-1066213894
  • Light to dark mode switch already in
  • Andreas K. I will look more into how to change the background colour (canvas tiles are transparent outside the document page)

GitHub activity (Pedro)

  • Gulsah
    • Gokay: Yup I saw. And Gulsah is working on that. New idea by cheking the first 4 byte is equeal to “%PDF”. Seems a good idea. But we still need to sync with Kendy and re-check PDF specification https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/5386 → Better use Kendy;s code pointers: viewcomment attribute that comes from /hosting/discovery endpoint
    • Chart size PPTX → Impress. Now working on this following Quikee code pointer → When we have auto layout somehow position and size is decided for the plot area → needs to find where this is happening.
    • Copy paste issue in calc (selecting row) working this → Michael’s comment : it’s taking too much time probably there is something else going on there as well.
  • Read-only mode → now it is more visisble when we are in read-only mode
  • Ongoing study on tabbed view → is to improve button placement to emphasize some actions over other
  • Missing icon line spacing → fixed merged
  • User wants to have log out button on the admin console
  • Accessibility Check now is also available within the Help tab
  • Removed Macros related and unnecessary CSS rules
  • It might be worth to check every disabled item → set respective mouse cursor

Design bits (Pedro and others

Other ongoing work

Michael

  • zstd → merged should be there on the server side …
  • Calc fixes for our finance team → insert/delete cells & associated dialogs → JS dialogs.
  • Still need to chase writer full-screen invalidations …

COOL Days

  • Probably tomorrow videos will be available on Youtube CollaboraOffice channel
    • AI: Notify people (email etc)
    • Videos already being uploaded (some already available)
      • Community pages were updated with COOL Days CTA → YT
  • Also https://www.collaboraoffice.com/ has a new Community menu!
  • Hacktoberfest → 4 PR got in → today shared in SM one of them

Next Meeting

17/11/2022