Weekly COOL meeting #97

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­Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #97

Date: Nov 17 2022

All minutes published on: Meeting Minutes - Collabora Online

Attendees (write your name):

  • Julius, Ezinne, Aron, Pedro, Szymon,Gökay, Gülşah, Thorsten, Gabriel, Pranam

Gabriel (1&1)

Nicolas

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Release schedule (Gokay)

  • CODE 22.05 → released already (last week)
  • Next release week 50 so, master branch is ready for new feature work

Nextcloud bits (Julius)

Forum (Pedro)

  • 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 → fixed with latest version
  • JSsidebar generated html
    • Szymon: Nice, we can then test this with the gridhandler wha
    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/5256 → Pedro needs to review it
    • Szymon: I have seen Andreas has update the structure on the core, need to check. Less containers but we are also moving to use grid in the core side https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/141380 → already on master, passed against distro CO (needs to be merged) AI: needs to be re-tested (grid inside of a grid)
    • Pedro: Reviewed both gerrit changes → requested additional adjustments (on inner grids)
    • AI: Andreas K: to test if changes in the UI files can be applied to pre packaged core and if it affects online
  • Inserting shapes makes the session crash → very interesting, AI: Ezinne will take a look

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)
  • AI: Pedro to promote more the feature branch

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 Hide insert menu item when in readonly mode by GulsahKose · Pull Request #5386 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → Better use Kendy;s code pointers: viewcomment attribute that comes from /hosting/discovery endpoint → fixed
    • 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. Discovered that even copy pasting in empty column takes a lot of time → now looking into performance with perf and debugging
  • Ongoing study on tabbed view → is to improve button placement to emphasize some actions over other
    • Accessibility Checker is now also available via the help tab
  • User wants to have log out button on the admin console
  • It might be worth to check every disabled item → set respective mouse cursor

Design bits (Pedro and others

  • Idea: on adding a way to hide all or almost all UI (via new icon) in Impress. To allow for presenting without going fullscreen
    • We also have old issue requesting a way to hide the slide sidebar
  • Hyperlink popup now has hyperlink actions (so the user doesn’t need to exit the popup, right click and click again to access that)
    • Width issue to be fixed → AI: Gokay
  • Icon fixes → add missing feedback icon (help tab)

Other ongoing work

COOL Days

  • Probably tomorrow videos are already 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 [done]
      • Slides repository was updated [done]
      • Plus add update to the Forum
  • Hacktoberfest → 4 PR got in → today shared in SM one of them

Next Meeting

24/11/2022