LibreOffice Online, a self-hostable libre office environment, is coming back!

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  As someone who is slowly moving off big tech, are there plugins or themes for these office suites that bring then more in line with modern UIs for office suites.

  I hate Msoft and Google but the gsuite has a nice clean set up. Microsoft less so but still doesnt feel as unwieldly as open office. I was doing a doc last night and ended up getting the chrome flatpak and signing into docs.

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  • kossa@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Open Office =/= Libre Office

    The latter is a long standing fork of the former and considered the “FLOSS standard office suite”. It has a “modern” ribbon UI, but you have to set it like that, it usually comes with the “old layout” by default.

    OnlyOffice is another office suite which brings a ribbon UI by default.

    While not open source Softmaker Office mimics Microsoft Office the closest (and claims the best available MS file format compatibility, but I cannot say anything about that).

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• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  OMG YES!!!

  This makes me really happy because it’ll make collaborating with friends on things a lot easier.

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• Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some new EU funding in the background?

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• conorab@lemmy.conorab.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fingers crossed this can be a viable replacement for Collabora Online with Nextcloud, which has been a nightmare.

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  fuck yeah. I’ll happily deploy this to my stack.

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was just looking if something like that exists yesterday, but got disappointed. Nice timing.

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  • blah3166@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Check out CryptPad.org, it’s:

    • Open Source; so it can’t be taken away from you should the org cease to exist.
    • Self-hostable; although you can use or pay to use other people’s instances.
    • Collaborative; with real-time editing like Google docs
    • Federated; so you can collaborate with others whether you’re using a self-hosted instance or using any other server.
    • End-to-end encrypted: The server admins can’t see any of your data.

    Only downsides so far is that the UX is a bit slow when first loading documents and there are no mobile apps.

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    • dhruv3006@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This one is pretty great!

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• titey@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Awesome! 😁

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• unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hope they’re able to move toward a client first renderer instead of the image tile approach they used previously. That was kinda a network hog and cludgy to use.

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  • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The screen caps on the original project page seem to imply a proper web ui:

    https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/

    Hard to be sure but the menu bar doesn’t look like the native menu.

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes please.

    I’d love libreoffice in a browser, but the way collabora achieves it is abysmal.

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• commander@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’ll be nice to see. I like Collabora but haven’t tried hosting it. Opening that up and LibreOffice up side by side with the tabbed interface, barely any different. Maybe LibreOffice exposes way more buttons in each tab so maybe more intimidating but it looks pretty good compared to what I remember when the tabbed interface was first made available. Looking forward to seeing this progress

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• muxika@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought tools like OnlyOffice filled in that gap. Nice to see an alternative.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People seem to be doling out some hate for OnlyOffice because of its compatibility with MSOffice formats.

    I maybe reporting it wrong. I just didn’t get it at the time, either.

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    • digger@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Back in 2020, those of us who had been using the OnlyOffice community document server were greeted with a notification stating that mobile editing was no longer supported and that we’d have to buy their commercial product.

      Some folks quickly figured out a patch. Others, like myself, left with a bad taste in our mouths.

      github.com/nextcloud/…/94

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    • hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think it has to do with a recent decision by OO to default save all files in MS format vs an open format ? I saw some post about it on Mastodon. I use LO

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