What if you use a lapdock with your Librem 5? 
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I stand by what I said, any employer that REQUIRES you to use a mobile device, even docked, for word processing and manupulating spreadsheets isn’t an employer worth working for.
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Since I’m doing it, with success, since years I’m curious to know why 
Thank you
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Doing what with success?
Being an employer that cuts costs by such a small fraction by not providing their employees with the proper tools to do their job efficiently and effectively?
Being an employee of an employer that would cut costs in such a way?
Or are you talking about CHOOSING to use your phone to perform tasks that the phone form factor is not well equipped for?
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I’m independent contractor, I’m Tour Leader so I need to use my smartphone as my office everywhere during tours, eg: into buses, museums, restaurants, on the roads,…
Hope it makes sense for you
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It makes sense that, as an independent contractor, you are choosing this for yourself not being mandated to use this workflow by an employer.
Ergo, this is not a need but rather a desire/want.
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Well, I need it because Tour Operators/Travel Agencies offices send me files during tours and I’ve to open, read and modify it! So it’s something mandatory for me.
I suppose I can use some office app for Android throw Waydroid in the meanwhile a proper mobile office or, better, adaptive Libre Office for L5 will be developed! And, of course, I want pay for it!! Software Developers must be paid for their job, as everyone else!!
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When I’m using my L5 connected to a monitor by an USB-C hub, I can edit documents, use buttons in tools bars and keyboard shortcuts, the issue is the menu: I cannot open the application menu so I cannot use all its menu items that are not in tools bars or covered by keyboard shortcuts. So it is enough for simple tasks using default configuration of LibreOffice, for advanced tasks or for easily configuring LibreOffice I need a computer.
I tested Writer and Calc; when I tried Draw, it crashed.
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I ordered one of these from Purism 7 months ago but it never shipped. So I ordered Nexdock 360 from NEX website and it shipped in 12 hrs. Mine is Nexdock 360 Wireless but it requires miracast technology which probably only works on PureOS crimson but mine is byzantium still for now. So it only works on a wire. I like wires or at least HKS but I wouldnt want to mess with the wire while in a bus.
Would a Librem 11 work? I never bought one
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… if even that.
Me too. I would assume that if Miracast (or equivalent technology) ever works on the Librem 5 then in order to use it, you would be forced to switch the WiFi on. That is not entirely logical for the setup and may or may not be acceptable from a security / privacy point of view (and that may also depend on your location at the time).
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I do not know, ask a Librem 11 owner.
To make LibreOffice work on Mobile is an effort that has already been undertaken by Collabora, who offer their LIbreOffice-based Collabora Office for Android and iOS, the source code is at GitHub - CollaboraOnline/online: Collabora Online is a collaborative online office suite based on LibreOffice technology. This is also the source for the Collabora Office apps for iOS and Android.. It works okay on Android and iOS in my limited testing.
Given that their “LibreOffice on the Web” thing lives in the same repo, I have some hope, that the mobile implementation is basically “the web thing + a browser runtime” — but I have not put any work into finding out if that is actually true; I will try with the Nextcloud instance of a friend when I am back and home without intermittent internet. If the hypthesis turns out to be true, one could try and make this work on Mobile Linux/the Librem 5 with some simple Web-runtime like Cog (or other webkit2gtk) and maybe a docker container (or similar) to locally run “web libre office”.
That’s the way, if editing is necessary. If it’s not needed, and viewing a document is enough, I recommend Install Morphosis on Linux | Flathub and the Document Viewer app (Evince, or, going forward, Papers).
BTW: Back in the day (ca. 2008, in its GTK2 days) Abiword had a mobile interface, but when I tried to build it a few years ago the option still existed but would not compile anymore.
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Android and iOS are not mobile phone operating systems, they are personal information harvesters… I am surprised that John Deere or Mahindra doesn’t make devices for them.
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To — finally — follow up on this:
If one has a Nextcloud instance with ‘Nextcloud Office’ (Nextcloud’s rebrand of Collabora Office), it works well enough in Firefox, at least on my OnePlus 6 running postmarketOS with Plasma Mobile:
So looking into making Collabora Office run locally, displayed in some kind of webview should be worth it.
(Or get a Nextcloud instance — IIRC, they offer an all-in-one Docker container that ships with Nextcloud Office, making setup a lot easier.)
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Did you installed the package: libreoffice-gtk3
sudo apt install libreoffice-gtk3 on a Librem 11 and Librem 5 it should help with context menus, and possibly other menus.
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pretty sure that integrations can be done: How to integrate — SDK https://sdk.collaboraonline.com/ documentation like iframes.
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@maryjane If it isn’t to much trouble, could you post a screenshot of what this looks like on the Librem 5 with something like writer, calc, or impress?
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