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Collabora Office Brings Its Online UI to the Desktop on Linux, Windows, and macOS (linuxiac.com)
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Collabora Productivity has announced the release of the first desktop version of its Collabora Office, bringing the full Collabora Online interface to Linux, Windows, and macOS as a native application.

For those who haven’t heard of the app, Collabora Office is an open-source office suite derived from the LibreOffice codebase, offering tools for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and vector graphics.

Until now, its most modern user interface—the one used in Collabora Online (COOL)—was available only in the browser. With this release, that interface is now packaged as a local desktop app running entirely offline.

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[–] lens0021@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I will try this. I rarely open xls files and all the icons on libre Calc look... old. They feel like they're straight out of the year 2000 (which might be true). I tried changing the theme, but none of them suited my taste.

The bad thing is Collabora only provides a single flatpak file for Linux. I wish it would be served on flathub. I was so disappointed enough that I tried OnlyOffice yesterday, but all the UI components of OnlyOffice are too large for my screen and the available scaling factor options are 100%, 125%, and so on while what I really need 75%. There is a feature request for this by the way.