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.
OMG YES!!!
This makes me really happy because it’ll make collaborating with friends on things a lot easier.
Fingers crossed this can be a viable replacement for Collabora Online with Nextcloud, which has been a nightmare.
Awesome! 😁
fuck yeah. I’ll happily deploy this to my stack.
I was just looking if something like that exists yesterday, but got disappointed. Nice timing.
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.
EDIT: Forgot to add the important par, they recently added support for OnlyOffice in the browser, which to me, was a pretty big deal.
This one is pretty great!
Some new EU funding in the background?
I’m quite happy with local apps, but I could see the appeal for self-hosting if the server would scale for the client (ie laptop on the desk vs mobile phone on the road)
Why? Why anyone needs online version?
Realtime collaborative documents. One thing that comes to mind is notes for my DND party.
Would be nice to keep em somewhere everyone can access and add to, no extra client software install required.
I’ve been looking at hedgedoc for this exact purpose, but then everyone in my party would have to learn markdown, and they’re not all tech savvy.
But markdown is so easy to learn. They can even ignore most of it, probably.
You telling me we wouldn’t also find a good use for collaborative spreadsheets?
“Just gonna add this loot to the party’s inventory real quick.”
I mean… When friends or people at my work place plan a party and want to organize who brings what, they share an MSOffice or Google Calc link around, which allows you to enter stuff and see in real time what the others enter.
That would be nice to do with LibreOffice instead.
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
How’s this project going to interact with
CollibreCollabora (sorry!)?I’m not getting any meaningful results searching for that project. What is it?
I think they mean https://www.collaboraonline.com/. That’s what’s used if you install the office addon for Nextcloud, if I’m not mistaken.
Maybe it was supposed to be Collabora?
My mood too.
That was actually my graduation photo, both times. I now look like that with just the top missing 😆
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.
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.
Yes please.
I’d love libreoffice in a browser, but the way collabora achieves it is abysmal.
I thought tools like OnlyOffice filled in that gap. Nice to see an alternative.
People seem to be doling out some hate for OnlyOffice because of its compatibility with MSOffice formats.
I may be reporting it wrong. I didn’t get it at the time, either.
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.
https://github.com/nextcloud/documentserver_community/issues/94
Plus, they are shady about their origins.
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
I thought that was odd too. Including the MS Office formats with everything else OnlyOffice can open is fine, perhaps even fantastic, but it’s weird as hell to make it the default.
