VERY GOOD! No, I didn't really mean to restrict it to Thunderbird. It's just what I'm most familiar with. Certainly, if there are other email readers that have capabilities that can be linked into LO those links should be explored.
Craig Tyche On 01/01/2011 12:42 PM, Jaime R. Garza wrote: > But why only for Thunderbird? > > Why not make an open container (or just modularize the existing one with a > well defined interface) to will allow any application to use the resources > (e.g. dictionaries) and have full integration with all LO resources? > > > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 20:36, Lee Hyde <anub...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 01/01/11 19:20, Craig A. Eddy wrote: >>> So, what am I saying? You don't NEED to add something useless like >>> Outlook or Evolution to LO. You just have to allow Thunderbird to >>> connect to it, and people can make their own choice as to whether they >>> want all the other bells and whistles. Therefore, no increase in size >>> due to bundling but the advantage that those that WANT the extras can >>> have them without difficulty >> >> I agree, an integration add-on for Thunderbird (and any other e-mail >> clients or contact managers with an add-on architecture) would be a far >> better use of resources. Simply making contacts available to LibreOffice >> would do wonders for mail-merge luck functionality (for the life of me I >> can't think of any other functionalities one would require of an outlook >> clone). >> >> -- >> "The division of mankind threatens it with destruction. Only universal >> cooperation under conditions of intellectual freedom and the lofty moral >> ideals of socialism and labor, accompanied by the elimination of >> dogmatism and pressure of the concealed interests of ruling classes, >> will preserve civilization." >> >> -- Andrei Sakharov, The New York Times (July 22nd, 1968) >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to >> discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org<discuss%2bh...@documentfoundation.org> >> Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ >> *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** >> >> > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
