OnlyOffice, the popular free open-source office suite, announced new 8.0 release this Friday.
The release introduced one of the most awaited features, RTL support. It now supports bidirectional text in documents and presentations. But, RTL input is partially available with some limitations, since it’s still in Beta. In the settings page, user can enabled RTL interface with a checkbox, then restart the app to apply.
The new 8.0 release also added local interface themes support. Besides the built-in light
, classic light
, dark
, and contrast dark
, there’s now a “Add local theme” option to apply a custom interface using local JSON
The release also introduced Moodle integration, a free and open-source learning management system. However, you need to connect to a supported cloud providers for this offline use office suite. Meaning, you can edit documents stored in Moodle platform right from the desktop app with all the local app features.
Other changes in OnlyOffice Desktop Editors 8.0 include:
OnlyOffice provides official packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux, available to download at the link below:
For Ubuntu users, either download the DEB package, then click install in file manager via “Software Install” option.
Or, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install the package from your Downloads folder:
sudo apt install ~/Downloads/onlyoffice-desktopeditors_amd64.deb
Or, install the Snap package which is available in Ubuntu Software (App Center), though runs in sandbox. The snap package is not updated to v8.0 at the moment.
For choice, the office suite is also available as AppImage. Just download it, add executable permission in file ‘Properties’ dialog, then you can finally click run the AppImage package to launch OnlyOffice.
Linux Mint 21 users can search for and install OnlyOffice as Flatpak package directly from Software Manager:
onlyoffice desktop editors in Linux Mint software manager
While Ubuntu users can install it as Flatpak package by running 2 commands below one by one:
Depends on which package you installed, uninstall the office suite via one of the commands below:
sudo apt remove --autoremove onlyoffice-desktopeditors
sudo snap remove onlyoffice-desktopeditors
flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.onlyoffice.desktopeditors
Also run flatpak uninstall --unused
to remove useless runtimes.
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