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[–] 203 points 4 months ago (17 children)

I like and use Libreoffice, but its a local application. This makes it fine for working by yourself and on your own hardware. Google Docs (Gstuite) is an online application with the best collaboration integration I've seen and works on nearly any device you can open a modern browser on. Yes, both products have a word processor and a spreadsheet, but they don't serve all the same use cases.

If this new Euro-office can replicate the Gsuite offerings (that Libreoffice lacks), then Euro-office could be a great addition to the open source community.

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  • [–] 52 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Nah this new Euro-Office is literally a OnlyOffice fork according to their GitHub. It's much closer in comparison to LibreOffice than Google docs.

    They have worked with NextCloud to make Euro-Office an app/add-on (I forget what NextCloud calls them specifically) from this release (v1.0), so that they can integrate with a platform that already.. Has this feature (with Collabora office), but hey.. The more the merrier.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    OnlyOffice is both. They have a fantastic web version that integrates well into NextCloud already. And they have a mobile version too. Assuming all of those get forked with it, we can certainly expect a Gsuite alternative.

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I remember seeing a post earlier this year about libreoffice doing a web based version.

    Yeah, here it is.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You're proving my point. They just started working on it 3 months ago. It will be a long time, if ever, before it is a Gsuite replacement. They even said they tried this a few years ago and abandoned it. There's a risk they'd do it again.

    So if there's another open source effort specifically focused on an online product, its a good thing.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    LibreOffice still hasn't managed to sort out making the UI scalable on Wayland, so you're stuck with either needing a magnifying glass to see the icons or you have to stand in the next room over and nothing in between. Given how many years they've had to work on that, I feel like the odds of them developing a working web UI in my lifetime are pretty slim.

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    Is cryptpad able to open existing docx files? Last time I checked I couldn't figure out how to do it. I mostly need to edit word documents that people send me, and send them back the same format.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    It can import most file types supported by only office

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Where is that option? I'm only getting the option to create a new document for some reason, and to export documents created on cryptpad to docx. I assumed it was because they only figured out the conversion one way but maybe I'm just missing the button?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    An office suite for collaborating ? Great idea ! I brt they would call it something like "Collabora Office" !

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