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<p>Hi Stu, your question on collaborative use of LibreOffice is a
very valid question.</p>
<p>I think no one doubts the need for proper support of
collaborative editing in LibreOffice. For LibreOffice (desktop) it
is necessary in order to be competitive and a requirement that it
can be used in workgroups. In my work environment, there is barely
any complex document, which is not shared and collaboratively
edited in the team (MS-based, unfortunately LibreOffice desktop
does not support this). I agree to your statement that fat clients
(and here you mean LibreOffice desktop) will always be superior
and thus need support for collaborative editing earlier or later.</p>
<p>The problem is that the implementation of collaborative editing
in LibreOffice (desktop) is rather complex as it requires an
advanced internal change tracking system. This is a substantial
effort. That's why no one dares to actually start this in the
LibreOffice desktop code.</p>
<p>There are efforts, though:</p>
<p>Please see bug 133984: "Enhancement: Support for real-time and
offline collaborative editing in LibreOffice (desktop)".The bug
description lists a number of ressources for collaborative editing
in LibreOffice. See the bug description:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133984">https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133984</a>. </p>
<p>The most notable work done recently is the work by Svante which
he describes here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133984#c8">https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133984#c8</a></p>
<p>Maybe your idea links nicely to these efforts. I hope that the
massive undertaking of supporting collaborative editing in
LibreOffice (desktop) starts earlier than later. <br>
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<p>
Best, Gerry</p>
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<pre>> Well, I wasn't trying to start a flamewar or a drama episode or anything. I
> didn't know collabawhatever was a thing.
> but a) it looks like a commercial product? b) it sounds like they just run
> libreoffice on a web server and project the instance to whoever's on that
> webpage. c) somebody has to supply the 'cloud' that it runs on.
> I'm a big fan of fat clients. ms word and libre office will always be
> superior to google docs (in my opinion only obviously) because it runs
> locally on my machine. What I was getting at was a way to make a fat client
> collaborative.
> But if there's no interest, I'll drop it.
> Thanks for the info.
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 9:07 AM Marc Roos <<a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice">M.Roos at f1-outsourcing.eu</a>> wrote:
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</i>><i> :) No but is really a question. I want to try a bit this libre office
</i>><i> online and I am not even able to get a simple test environment running
</i>><i> that creates a odt file that I can edit from multiple clients.
</i>><i> Even the manual of libre online online ~50% writing about other
</i>><i> products/services.
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</i>><i> -----Original Message-----
</i>><i> Cc: nixo; libreoffice
</i>><i> Subject: Re: Is there any effort or discussion yet about collaborative
</i>><i> use of libreoffice applications?
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</i>><i> Why do people send collabra office stuff on a libre office mailing
</i>><i> list???? The question is clearly about libre office.
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</i>><i> Oh sorry then. I will now go back in the corner to enjoy my popcorn.
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</i>><i> --tml
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