Re: What is your answer to solve the top inhibitor for the Linux desktop adoption? (was Re: [Desktop_architects] Most wanted Application: Email)

2005-12-28 Thread Otto Wyss
Dan Kegel wrote: Finally, and this is something not discussed at the meeting, I'm walking through lists of successful small windows ISVs (e.g. http://www.microisv.com/archives/category/microisv-profile), testing their apps under Wine, reporting the wine bugs I find, and working to get the bugs

Re: [Desktop_architects] Most wanted Application: Email

2005-12-21 Thread Hubert Figuiere
It isn't the client side. It is the server side. 1) Good sync with handheld devices. Phone, Blackbeary (sp?) and Plam or pocket PC This is client side. Let's give some love to OpenSync. The idea is fundamentally good. Shall we integrate PDA-like device syncronization into

RE: [Desktop_architects] Most wanted Application: Email

2005-12-21 Thread Miller, Marc
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy D. Witham Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:58 PM To: Mike Shaver Cc: desktop_architects@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [Desktop_architects] Most wanted Application: Email On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:31 -0500, Mike Shaver wrote

Re: [Desktop_architects] Most wanted Application: Email

2005-12-21 Thread Mike Shaver
On 21-Dec-05, at 5:55 PM, Miller, Marc wrote: The trick then becomes to create demand for that server-end app by creating a client that supports compelling additional features without crippling the user for not having the server end of the solution. Do we need to do that for the Linux

Re: [Desktop_architects] Most wanted Application: Email

2005-12-21 Thread Dan Kegel
I'd like to declare shenanigans on this topic. IMHO email applications are somewhat beyond the scope of this list... On 12/21/05, Mike Shaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21-Dec-05, at 5:55 PM, Miller, Marc wrote: The trick then becomes to create demand for that server-end app by creating a

Re: [Desktop_architects] Most wanted Application: Email

2005-12-21 Thread Cornelius Schumacher
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 22:58, Timothy D. Witham wrote: 2) Group calendaring including meeting scheduling. i..e. I want to check if Tom, Bill, Linus and Buddy the wonder dog are available at 10:00 PM. This includes a laptop resyncing

Re: [Desktop_architects] Most wanted Application: Email

2005-12-21 Thread Timothy D. Witham
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 17:35 -0500, Mike Shaver wrote: On 21-Dec-05, at 4:58 PM, Timothy D. Witham wrote: 1) Good sync with handheld devices. Phone, Blackbeary (sp?) and Plam or pocket PC Evo does that in many cases, I thought, but yeah, I can totally see that being a