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c/opensource · by Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml · 97d

OnlyOffice seem to have taken down their Android app source code

https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/documents-app-android

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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SwooshBakery624@programming.dev · 54 pts · 97d

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.

ameen272@thelemmy.club · 45 pts · 97d (2 replies)

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??

Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 96d (1 reply)

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

CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 96d

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

warmaster@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 97d (1 reply)

EuroOffice forked it, right? Let's hope they publish it soonish.

Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 97d

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.

ByteMe@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 97d

Collabora office

peterhorvath@mastodon.de · 7 pts · 97d

@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.

thedormantotaku@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 96d (9 replies)

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.

Zombie@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 96d (2 replies)

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?

thedormantotaku@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 96d (1 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

Zombie@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 96d

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

peterhorvath@mastodon.de · 3 pts · 96d (4 replies)

@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.

thedormantotaku@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 96d (3 replies)

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

peterhorvath@mastodon.de · 2 pts · 96d (2 replies)

@thedormantotaku A possible side-effect that I remember as micro$oft "improved" its office outlook, maybe with office 2k3 or so. I hated that. Many, particularly the windows UI based companies, followed it. OpenOffice/LibreOffice intentionally ignored it. And I was a linuxer.

But young people can not really remember it.

thedormantotaku@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 96d (1 reply)

Yeah that's before I was born so I dont have any idea. My first exposure to.office suite was office 2010 so that has shaped my habits. Fuck Microsoft tho

peterhorvath@mastodon.de · 1 pts · 96d

@thedormantotaku No worry!!! Fact that you escaped the microsoft reality, without knowing the world BEFORE IT, elevates you into the top percents of the human population!

monovergent@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 96d

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.

KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 96d

The collabora android apps are pretty good

Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 96d

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?

peterhorvath@mastodon.de · 0 pts · 97d

@Dr_Vindaloo Btw, actuall what made libreoffice/openoffice so hard to port to android?

ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 96d
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thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 97d (1 reply)

Does OnlyOffice have an OnlyFans account?

overcast@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 96d

well, OF must have offices so…