An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement
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@ocdtrekkie @zandbelt @libreoffice
What LibreOffice should be doing is subtly different. Instead of using "save as OOXML by default," it should ensure that the "Open" dialog box displays any ODF or OOXML document for selection without any hassle. THAT would be a real improvement. And apparently, it's doing that now.
And perhaps offering to save the native format just once, instead of every time
And more importantly: manage them as best as possible. And improve PDF support.@karlggestd @zandbelt @libreoffice Yes. IMHO the best direction for LibreOffice is to make the formats *not matter* such that nobody cares that they stopped saving docx and started saving odt at some point. The less it matters the more people can comfortably switch to open software.
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@karlggestd @zandbelt @libreoffice Yes. IMHO the best direction for LibreOffice is to make the formats *not matter* such that nobody cares that they stopped saving docx and started saving odt at some point. The less it matters the more people can comfortably switch to open software.
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The best aprox is "create new as ODF, save in the last time saved". -
An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-letter/
Is that a picture attached to your post?
Is that picture a PNG with transparent background?Well, whatever it is, it's unreadable/ unrecognisable what's supposed to be showing.
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@karlggestd @zandbelt @libreoffice Yes. IMHO the best direction for LibreOffice is to make the formats *not matter* such that nobody cares that they stopped saving docx and started saving odt at some point. The less it matters the more people can comfortably switch to open software.
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@hobart
I normally like xkcd but knocking neurodivergency for shits and giggles seems a bit weird.
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@libreoffice Thanks for the extra info about Euro Office. Is it known why they have chosen to default to OOXML, is there a limitation in ODF that they don't put the work in to implement? I understand that might be something only they can answer, but you seem to have done research on it.
@jmbmkn @libreoffice Euro Office is a fork of OnlyOffice which uses OOXML internally.
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An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-letter/
@libreoffice I thank you for your open letter, and I'm going to take advantage of it to ask you: are you going to abandon Github in the foreseeable future? If I'm not mistaken your official repositories are here: https://github.com/LibreOffice
I'm wrong, they're at https://git.libreoffice.org/
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@libreoffice I thank you for your open letter, and I'm going to take advantage of it to ask you: are you going to abandon Github in the foreseeable future? If I'm not mistaken your official repositories are here: https://github.com/LibreOffice
I'm wrong, they're at https://git.libreoffice.org/
@dunklecat That's not our repo. We are at https://git.libreoffice.org
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@dunklecat That's not our repo. We are at https://git.libreoffice.org
@libreoffice sorry for the misunderstanding, thank you!
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@dunklecat That's not our repo. We are at https://git.libreoffice.org
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org @dunklecat@mastodon.dunklecat.dev looks like that github org are just mirrors but good to know they’re not official
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@hobart @libreoffice Give it a rest, or a soap ?
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An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-letter/
@libreoffice This is what using LibreOffice is like.
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