LibreOffice Online: a fresh start - TDF Community Blog
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LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to develop LibreOffice Online, but in 2022 the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation voted to freeze the project and put it in the “attic”, for reasons that have now been superseded. Earlier this month, the current Board of Directors decided to revoke those votes to give new life to the project, as Eliane Domingos, chairperson, put it: To start the process of freeing LibreOffice Online, and to start the journey that will lead to having an online version by the community and for the community. Now the work begins. We plan to reopen the repository for LibreOffice Online at The Document Foundation for contributions, but provide warnings about the state of the repository until TDF’s team agrees that it’s safe and usable – while at the same time encourage the community to join in with code, technologies and other contributions that can be used to move forward. We will actively work with the community to identify how to foster LibreOffice Online, including its technological basis, QA and
  • commander@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 hour 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

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
    16·
    3 hours ago

    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)

  • unmagical@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    4 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.

  • muxika@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 hours ago

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

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      2 hours ago

      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.

      • digger@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        2 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.

        https://github.com/nextcloud/documentserver_community/issues/94

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        1 hour 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