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)
For personal use, being able to replace microsoft/google offerings with little to no functionality loss is amazing
My first gut reaction was “Neat, but no thank you” but the more I think about how many clients COULD be using a cloud hosted privacy respecting platform instead of 365, I quickly bit my lip.
They say in their post that they won’t host it.
(IMO) even better.
Give me the package to self-host it.Yeah, I agree with that. Give me a container.
Yes that’s understood and particularly great, leaving orgs/people to self host. I’m all for it.
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.
Yes please.
I’d love libreoffice in a browser, but the way collabora achieves it is abysmal.
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.
Fingers crossed this can be a viable replacement for Collabora Online with Nextcloud, which has been a nightmare.
I was just looking if something like that exists yesterday, but got disappointed. Nice timing.
OMG YES!!!
This makes me really happy because it’ll make collaborating with friends on things a lot easier.
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.
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).
If we’re talking about online editing, Collabora has web editors based on LibreOffice but with a modern UI: https://www.collaboraonline.com/
They are really great and can be self hosted (e.g. with Nextcloud).
For offline editing, as already mentioned, LibreOffice has an optional ribbon UI and OnlyOffice looks pretty modern as well.
For a second I read OpenOffice instead of OnlyOffice and was perplexed how one would call that modern lmao
Great!
I’d love to see libre office on my personal nextcloud instance. That would be an easy and effective “feature” for nextcloud which could be adopted by many business. They’re already running Nextcloud, maybe, for the digital sovereign.
Anyway, thanks for your efforts!
Wasn’t collabora trying to be this
I thought tools like OnlyOffice filled in that gap. Nice to see an alternative.
Awesome! 😁
I think Libre Office is fantastic and I’m glad to see the back of Microsoft. But I miss how useful mail-merge was and how limited it is in Libre. It’s my only small complaint among so many cheers for Libre.
Why everything is going to be browser based?
This should open it to being used collaboratively.
Then I can convince wherever I work, to use this instead of going with other MS stuff?How long until someone uses a LibreOffice Online instance to drop a Google doc on someone?
