ing Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 11/6/05, Daniel Kasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Robbie Darrell Graham wrote:
>Yes, I also use Thunderbird. But I would like to use something that was
>integrated into open office like Outlook is in Microsoft Office.
>
>
Why?
Why? - WHY?
Because it makes *SENSE* to, that's why.
I understand that OpenOffice.org is holy, and perfect, and is not to be
questioned. If something is missing, it *SHOULD* be missing. If something
hogs memory, it *SHOULD* hog memory.
But the simple fact is, people use Outlook everyday. It's got value. It
makes sense that the same words that I use in Word are the same words I use
in Outlook - therefore, the spell-checker should draw from the same list of
words. It makes sense that since email is mostly words, and text documents
are mostly words, the interface should be similiar, if not identical. It
also makes sense that if I write something to someone, I should be able to
email it, from my email address, *AS AN EMAIL* - not an attachment, even if
I write it in my word processor, and not my email client, and I should be
able to do this without opening my email client, and without copying and
pasting anything. I makes sense that my contact information (Names, emails,
addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, relationships, etc.) should be
accessible from my email client and my word processor. Because regardless of
if I am writing an email to someone, or a letter, or making a chart for
them, their info doesn't change, so I should have that info uniform
throughout the programs I use to interact with them.
For these, and I am sure dozens of other reasons, it makes sense to have an
email client as a part of your office suite, whether that suite is
OpenOffice,org or MS Office, or Gnumeric, or whatever.
That's "Why".
-Chad Smith
Actually I agree in chad with this one, however to do this you need
'traditionally' a monolitic stack of code, whenever is in KDE or Win32 (I am
not sure if iWorks do the same). You need to have cross development on both.
Rencent development of webservices (traditionally web - desktop relation) can
also be as an application-to-application service. Where OOo can serv the data
to Thunderbird. I think OOo can do that through their xml components, the only
end will be if OOo can transform OD into HTML fast enough or if GECKO can
natively render OpenDocument to make able Thunderbird can understand the data
OOo is sending.
Development is going that way as you can see on this Interface of the API:
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/mozilla/module-ix.html
But I don't see you having (at least for the time being) your Mozilla address
book in sync with your OpenOffice.org (even though is possible since you can
use your Address Book autopilot). And also the wordspelling will be a bit
harder since both apps are NOT the same and even if they can interact they
shouldn't be dependant (since not all thunderbird user might have or want to
have OOo).
--
Alexandro Colorado
Co-Lider de OpenOffice.org Espanol
http://es.openoffice.org
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