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Dr_Vindaloo lemmy.ml Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-10-19
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I wonder if this has something to do with the EuroOffice drama. It's too bad, this was the only decent FOSS office app for Android.

Edit: Some commenters say this may not have been fully FOSS despite some of the code being published.

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warmaster lemmy.world warmaster@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
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EuroOffice forked it, right? Let's hope they publish it soonish.

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Dr_Vindaloo lemmy.ml Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-10-19
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EuroOffice forked it, right? Let's hope they publish it soonish.

I don't see a fork on their account. The account description does say they're working on a mobile app though, so hopefully it's just private for now.

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Peter Horvath mastodon.de peterhorvath@mastodon.de
Joined: 2026-02-12
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@Dr_Vindaloo If it as on the github, how many people did fork it before? The source itself is still here, question is its license.

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Peter Horvath mastodon.de peterhorvath@mastodon.de
Joined: 2026-02-12
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@Dr_Vindaloo Btw, actuall what made libreoffice/openoffice so hard to port to android?

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SwooshBakery624 [they/them] programming.dev SwooshBakery624@programming.dev
Joined: 2024-11-23
#6 · Quote Reply

FOSS office app for Android.

OnlyOffice mobile app is not fully FOSS. It is impossible to build it from source, as it requires dependencies from private repos.

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ByteMe lemmy.world ByteMe@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-21
#7 · Quote Reply

Collabora office

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thingsiplay lemmy.ml thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-01-09
#8 · Quote Reply

Does OnlyOffice have an OnlyFans account?

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ameen272 thelemmy.club ameen272@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2026-04-14
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Excuse me?? I'm sorry, but OnlyOffice is not FOSS. Hell, it's not even fully OSS in the first place, how are you calling it FOSS??

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KryptonBlur slrpnk.net KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2024-01-18
#10 · Quote Reply

The collabora android apps are pretty good

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overcast lemmy.zip overcast@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-10
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Does OnlyOffice have an OnlyFans account?

well, OF must have offices so…

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Dariusmiles2123 sh.itjust.works Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-11
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I’ve been a happy OnlyOffice user for a while now.

However, if the people behind are crap, I wouldn’t mind moving to something else.

I’d only want it to work easily with kDrive (cloud storage) and also be able to do light work on my iPhone.

Do you know if this could be done with one of its alternatives?

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Dr_Vindaloo lemmy.ml Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-10-19
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Excuse me?? I'm sorry, but OnlyOffice is not FOSS. Hell, it's not even fully OSS in the first place, how are you calling it FOSS??

i had no idea. i assumed since the source code appeared to be on github (along with releases), it was.

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thedormantotaku lemmy.world thedormantotaku@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-05-13
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What office suite is ideal for Linux users then? Only office has been acting shady. Libreoffice, for the love of god I cannot use with that UI. If they improve the UI, I will switch to it in an instant. Now euroffice seems to have some promise but we will need to see.

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Peter Horvath mastodon.de peterhorvath@mastodon.de
Joined: 2026-02-12
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What office suite is ideal for Linux users then? Only office has been acting shady. Libreoffice, for the love of god I cannot use with that UI. If they improve the UI, I will switch to it in an instant. Now euroffice seems to have some promise but we will need to see.

@thedormantotaku @Dr_Vindaloo Maybe I am an old boy. I have written a book with libreoffice writer. It had also embedded tables and libredraw pictures.

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thedormantotaku lemmy.world thedormantotaku@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-05-13
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@thedormantotaku @Dr_Vindaloo Maybe I am an old boy. I have written a book with libreoffice writer. It had also embedded tables and libredraw pictures.

I never got the hang of the UI tbh. It doesn't look polished enough. Though its functional for sure. I can do almost everything in libreoffice suite. It just feels unintuitive and uncomfortable tbh

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Zombie feddit.uk Zombie@feddit.uk
Joined: 2024-06-01
#17 · Quote Reply

What office suite is ideal for Linux users then? Only office has been acting shady. Libreoffice, for the love of god I cannot use with that UI. If they improve the UI, I will switch to it in an instant. Now euroffice seems to have some promise but we will need to see.

LibreOffice has multiple UIs to choose from and allows a huge amount of customisation, what are you on about? Did you last use it 10 years ago or something?

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thedormantotaku lemmy.world thedormantotaku@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-05-13
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LibreOffice has multiple UIs to choose from and allows a huge amount of customisation, what are you on about? Did you last use it 10 years ago or something?

Nah I have it installed rn in my Linux PC. I guess its a personal preference that I am more inclined towards onlyoffice's UI

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CrypticCoffee Moderator CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-10
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i had no idea. i assumed since the source code appeared to be on github (along with releases), it was.

Source available fails on principles of open source. Such as the right to modify and distribute.

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Zombie feddit.uk Zombie@feddit.uk
Joined: 2024-06-01
#20 · Quote Reply

Nah I have it installed rn in my Linux PC. I guess its a personal preference that I am more inclined towards onlyoffice's UI

You might enjoy LibreOffice after changing to a different UI, here's how:

Select a preferred user interface variant as follows:

Open a LibreOffice module to change the user interface.

Go to View > User Interface on the Menu bar to open the Select Your Preferred User Interface dialog (Figure 12).

Select the preferred user interface from the options available in UI variants. A preview of the selected user interface is displayed in the dialog.

To use the selected user interface for all LibreOffice modules, click on Apply to All.

To only use the selected user interface for the LibreOffice module that is open, click on Apply to {Module}, for example Apply to Writer.

Click on Close to close the dialog.

https://books.libreoffice.org/en/GS252/GS25213-CustomizingLO.html#toc34

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monovergent lemmy.ml monovergent@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-11-27
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What office suite is ideal for Linux users then? Only office has been acting shady. Libreoffice, for the love of god I cannot use with that UI. If they improve the UI, I will switch to it in an instant. Now euroffice seems to have some promise but we will need to see.

As a daily LibreOffice user, I agree with you on the UI. I can't even keep track of how many different settings menus there are and each of them are a labyrinth unto themselves. What ended up saving my sanity was setting the UI to single toolbar and purging every unnecessary button in Calc and Writer. Might be unpopular, but I then arranged the remaining toolbar features the way they do in Google Docs. For Impress, I set it to the tabbed ribbon-esque interface.

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