# Which Collabora Office app when more than one is installed

**URL:** <https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/which-collabora-office-app-when-more-than-one-is-installed/5104>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [October 5, 2026, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/which-collabora-office-app-when-more-than-one-is-installed/5104 "2026-10-05T11:38:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![rpear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@rpear](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/rpear)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/which-collabora-office-app-when-more-than-one-is-installed/5104/1 "2026-10-05T11:38:16Z")

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It is possible to run more than one Collabora Office app on a device, on a Chromebook it could be the Android app, the flatpak Linux app, or the Linux app, it would be useful to say which is running in Help \> About, if it is potentially an Easy enhancement, should I add it to [Issues](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues)? Also, they all have the same name and icon in the launcher - but this is OK, and as expected 🙂

Saw this enhancement in an area that is related, i.e. it may help someone who looks at it:

[https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/12253](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/12253)

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**Author:** ![darshan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/darshan/32/2230_2.png) [@darshan](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/darshan)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/which-collabora-office-app-when-more-than-one-is-installed/5104/2 "2026-10-05T14:24:33Z")

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Hi @rpear

Good idea - please do file it on [Issues · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues). The About dialog for the apps is shared code in the online repo, and it already knows internally whether it is the Android, iOS, Windows, macOS or Qt/Linux app (it even knows when the Android app is running on ChromeOS), so showing that in Help \> About is a small, well-contained change and a good candidate for an Easy hack.

The one part that needs a little extra plumbing is telling the flatpak build apart from the native Linux build, since that has to be detected in the app process and handed to the UI. And yes, [https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/12253](https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/12253) is related in spirit - it adds the build number to the version shown in About so a snapshot can be traced to a commit - so linking it from the issue makes sense.

Cheers  
Darshan

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**Author:** ![rpear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@rpear](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/rpear)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/which-collabora-office-app-when-more-than-one-is-installed/5104/3 "2026-10-06T00:07:56Z")

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> <https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/16283>
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> Issue: It is possible to run more than one Collabora Office app on a device, on …a Chromebook it could be the Android app, the flatpak Linux app, or the native Linux app. Help \> About does not tell me this.
> 
> Solution: I would like to see which Collabora Office is running on a device when I click on Help \> About. I saw an enhancement that may be related, it may help: https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/12253 
> 
> @Darshan-upadhyay1110 said the following about this when I mentioned it on the forum: https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/which-collabora-office-app-when-more-than-one-is-installed/5104
> \> The About dialog for the apps is shared code in the online repo, and it already knows internally whether it is the Android, iOS, Windows, macOS or Qt/Linux app (it even knows when the Android app is running on ChromeOS), so showing that in Help \> About is a small, well-contained change and a good candidate for an Easy hack. 
> \> The one part that needs a little extra plumbing is telling the flatpak build apart from the native Linux build, since that has to be detected in the app process and handed to the UI. And yes, https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/12253 is related in spirit - it adds the build number to the version shown in About so a snapshot can be traced to a commit - so linking it from the issue makes sense.
> 
> Some ideas:
> \- Android
> \- Android optimised for ChromeOS, because the Android app has been optimised for it. 
> \- iOS
> \- iPadOS optimised, because the iOS app has been optimised for it.
> \- Classic Linux app running on what OS, (Native Windows/macOS/Linux-flavour)
> \- Linux app running on what OS, (Flatpak Windows/macOS/FreeBSD/Linux-flavour etc)
> 
> Maybe there is other useful info that can be added, versions of OS, Browser for Online etc.
> 
> About from the Collabora Office Android app running on ChromeOS: 
> \<img width="715" height="286" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f43c3347-2cac-4a5f-8e09-3df0f2f5ed58" /\>
> 
> About from the Collabora Online running on ChromeOS: 
> \<img width="752" height="299" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ff8ab52-541b-4e16-8552-80f18610417e" /\>