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The New Collabora Office for Desktop

https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-office/
28•mfld•1h ago

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karel-3d•31m ago
Collabora vs LibreOffice branding is always quite confusing to me.

How is this project related to LibreOffice and also to what used to be called LibreOffice Online? (And Collabora Office Classic. And Collabora Online)

aaron_oxenrider•25m ago
I was also curious. It says this in about the middle of the homepage:

"We love LibreOffice. We are privileged to be the largest code contributors to the codebase, Collabora employs several founders of The Document Foundation, and many of the top committers. We offer a Long Term supported product based on LibreOffice, branded as Collabora Office Classic, and are deeply grateful for and acknowledge many skilled community contributors we work alongside, as well as the incredible range of features that LibreOffice code enables."

karel-3d•18m ago
I think - not sure - that

* Collabora Online is rebranded, and hosted, LibreOffice Online

* or rather - LibreOffice Online never really existed and it was always Collabora Online Development Edition (I cannot find any LibreOffice Online that's not just Collabora Online Development Edition)

* Collabora Office for Desktop is Collabora Online, packaged as a desktop app

* Collabora Office Classic is just rebranded LibreOffice

* Collabora (the company) is one of the biggest contributors to LibreOffice

HexDecOctBin•31m ago
Why is 'Differences between Collabora Office and Collabora Office Classic' document gated behind a email-wall? Nothing but enshittification.

https://www.collaboraonline.com/case-studies/differences-bet...

eviks•21m ago
But how will we spam you if you don't give us email?
gowld•15m ago
Even funnier when you try that from the "freedom" whitepage download https://www.collaboraonline.com/case-studies/opendesk/

If you don't give an email address, it doesn't even prompt you to ttry again. It just bugs out and redirects to a home page with a broken URL attempting to inject HTML from client side.

That's strange because the only reason for a user to use OpenOffice/Collabra is because they don't want to deal with an annoying company that makes a far superior product. If the inferior product is also run by an annoying company, why bother?

nico•27m ago
This is probably great software. But the design, both of the site and the office software, looks so dated, it doesn’t even tempt me to try it
boobsbr•14m ago
It looks like MS Office, what's so bad about it?
karel-3d•8m ago
It is actually very, very janky and behaves like someone tried to reimplement ~15 years old Office UI in JavaScript. Not in a good way.

I really, really want them to be successful, but I cannot pretend it's a pleasure to use at all.

eviks•18m ago
Seems to be a dumbed down UI with less customization, but built with shiny new browser tech (Canvas, WebGL, CSS)! Also limited macros. No embedded Java
Squarex•16m ago
Is it based on some open source core? Like the original Collabora Office?
nusl•15m ago
looks like LibreOffice
Squarex•12m ago
I have not tried LibreOffice Online in many years, but it does not look like LibreOffice at all. It have the MSOffice ribbon clone. It is closer to OnlyOffice

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