Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-May-2002/11:19 -0500, Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 11:05, Dan Winship wrote: >> CrossOver is a dead end though, unfortunately. The license of Office XP >> explicitly says you can only run it on real Windows XP (o

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-May-2002/12:16 -0400, Andy Cedilnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Maybe just me, but what kind of world do we live in where a product >license can tell you you cannot use it with another product... Sounds >like Shell would say you cannot use their

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 11:06, Anders Näslund wrote: > The intresting thing however,is to find a reasonable good "Outlook" on > windows platform that IS NOT Outlook. > Consider this scenario: > 1) Microsoft is boosting lic. prices with the new licensemodel. > - Management says: Find a cheaper

Re: [Evolution] Evolution autocompletion

2002-05-24 Thread Not Zed
afaik - no. On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 21:17, Andy Cedilnik wrote: > How about addresses automatically go to the address book? > > Andy > > On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 20:22, Not Zed wrote: > > You just have to have addresses in the addressbook. Contacts, or > > whatever the

Re: [Evolution] Evolution autocompletion

2002-05-24 Thread Not Zed
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 01:11, Andy Cedilnik wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 10:13, Not Zed wrote: > > afaik - no. > > Is this not ever or just you don't like the idea or ...? I dont much care either way, i guess its a reasonable feature. > Mozilla does that. You could always use that. ___

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le ven 24/05/2002 à 18:05, Dan Winship a écrit : > > I believe, tho, that even using CX Office, Outlook doesn't run right. > > Which doesn't mean that the next version of CX Office won't solve that > > problem ... > > CrossOver is a dead end though, unfortunately. The license of Office XP > expl

RE: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread anders . naslund
Title: RE: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port? ...it is also illegal to use Microsoft development tools to develop: "...virus like code based on open source" No wonder I'm not running MS products anymore /A -Original Message- From: Andy Cedilnik To: Dan Winship Cc: Mi

Re: [Evolution] Evolution autocompletion

2002-05-24 Thread David G. Simmons
Maybe he's referring to the (rather annoying) behavior of Netscape 6.x email where it 'harvests' email addresses from incoming and outgoing messages and can autocomplete based on those? NS 6.x does not add them to your address book, but it caches them somewhere so it can autocomplete based on the

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Andy Cedilnik
Maybe just me, but what kind of world do we live in where a product license can tell you you cannot use it with another product... Sounds like Shell would say you cannot use their gasoline with Kia... Andy On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 12:05, Dan Winship wrote: > CrossOver is a

Re: [Evolution] Evolution autocompletion

2002-05-24 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
it works for me. you just have to have addresses in your addressbook. it won't auto-complete an address that you don't have. duh. :-) Jeff On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 08:29, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: > The only thing that is really SURE now: > > - Nobody knows how to do that... > > Anyone that have

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Brad Felmey
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 11:05, Dan Winship wrote: > > I believe, tho, that even using CX Office, Outlook doesn't run right. > > Which doesn't mean that the next version of CX Office won't solve that > > problem ... > > CrossOver is a dead end though, unfortunately. The license of Office XP > expli

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Anders Näslund
The intresting thing however,is to find a reasonable good "Outlook" on windows platform that IS NOT Outlook. Consider this scenario: 1) Microsoft is boosting lic. prices with the new licensemodel. - Management says: Find a cheaper solution 2) Investigating alternatives to Exchange (servers

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Dan Winship
> I believe, tho, that even using CX Office, Outlook doesn't run right. > Which doesn't mean that the next version of CX Office won't solve that > problem ... CrossOver is a dead end though, unfortunately. The license of Office XP explicitly says you can only run it on real Windows XP (or someth

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread David G. Simmons
I can confirm that Lookout does not run all that 'correctly' on CX Office. It's better than nothing, if you happen to be forced into it (as I have been), but still. I can't get our IT to either a) go to IMAP or b) upgrade the excahnge server so I can use the Connector. The REAL opportunity I see

Re: [Evolution] Evolution autocompletion

2002-05-24 Thread Andy Cedilnik
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 10:13, Not Zed wrote: > afaik - no. Is this not ever or just you don't like the idea or ...? Mozilla does that. Andy ___ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Michael Leone
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 03:36, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: > > > past. To make Evolution for Windows would be reinventing the wheel > > since Windows already has Outlook. If your Windows users are already > > Yes, Outlook is a GREAT program, but: > - It's microsoft, so it will NEVER run on Linux...

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Michael Leone
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 02:21, Marko Asplund wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Michael Leone wrote: > > > > for a computer enthusiast switching to Linux or running Linux under VM > > > ware may be an alternative but when it comes to people with not a very > > > strong background in computers and who th

Re: [Evolution] Evolution autocompletion

2002-05-24 Thread Jean-Eric Cuendet
The only thing that is really SURE now: - Nobody knows how to do that... Anyone that have AUTOCOMPLETION *working*? Thanks to share experiences. -jec PS: Autocompletion means: You have a friend called [EMAIL PROTECTED] , type "mik" in the address field and the rest "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is auto

Re: [Evolution] never ever show this thing again

2002-05-24 Thread Not Zed
People *know* its a development version, because they *installed* it. We haven't had it turned on while it really was an experimental development version, and now it gets turned on when it is just about ready for release. On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 00:11, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-23

Re: [Evolution] Evolution autocompletion

2002-05-24 Thread Anders Näslund
Manuel, I can configure more sources, that's not a problem. But if I have all my company in an LDAP database it makes more sense to have autocomplete work against that instead of the local adressbook :-) /A fre 2002-05-24 klockan 17.05 skrev Manuel Borchers: > Hi! > > Am Fre, 2002-05-24 um

Re: [Evolution] Evolution autocompletion

2002-05-24 Thread Paul Hands
Hi, It was broken in a couple of versions, but I now use 1.05. It now works fine for me from our company LDAP server. I simply added the line ldap://ldap.cadence.com:389/ou=people,o=cadence.com??one"/> to the config.xmldb file as advised in the knowledge base. The trick is knowing what the

Re: [Evolution] never ever show this thing again

2002-05-24 Thread Ettore Perazzoli
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 20:23, Not Zed wrote: Ugh, why on earth was that put back? To warn people that it's a development version. -- Ettore

Re: [Evolution] Evolution autocompletion

2002-05-24 Thread Anders Näslund
Works for me every time. Note: the entry must be in Your local adressbook/contacts. which leeds me to say: It would be great if one could choose to use an external LDAP server as primary source (or even better to set a search order = first company LDAP, if not found then local or vise versa) /A

[Evolution] Evolution and pilot sync against USB palms

2002-05-24 Thread Nigel Metheringham
I have a Palm m505 which I am successfully syncing to evolution using a serial link. Has anyone got a USB connection for this form of Palm (which uses the PalmOS 4 mangled netword transport format over USB rather than treating USB as fast serial) working? Anyone got the new pilot-link (which do

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 08:21, Marko Asplund wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Michael Leone wrote: > > > > for a computer enthusiast switching to Linux or running Linux under VM > > > ware may be an alternative but when it comes to people with not a very > > > strong background in computers and who th

Re: [Evolution] Evolution autocompletion

2002-05-24 Thread Andy Cedilnik
How about addresses automatically go to the address book? Andy On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 20:22, Not Zed wrote: > You just have to have addresses in the addressbook. Contacts, or > whatever the thing is called this week. > > I think connector just uses the exchange a

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Andy Cedilnik
If you use VNC, it will only require you somebody to setup initial thing. VNC client is a small piece of software and you can actually run it from the network.On the other side you just make Evolution client(s) running through VNC server(s) all the time. When it dies/exits/reboots, the cron job wo

Re: [Evolution] Shortcut for displaying hidden folder bar

2002-05-24 Thread Janus Christensen
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 18:32, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > Alt-V F (View -> Folder bar). > > Alternatively, you can use Control-G (Go to Folder). Thanks, that works for me; espcially Go to Folder since the window dissapears after selecting a folder. The Folder bar has to be removed manually after s

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Stefan Schustereit
On Fre, 2002-05-24 at 00:53, Zot O'Connor wrote: > If the end user can run the same app on windows and linux, and we chip > away at the app base for windows-only, then the switch is easier... IMHO the most important point is that Ximian is a Unix company, and there aren't any resources left for

Re: [Evolution] will there be a Windows port?

2002-05-24 Thread Jean-Eric Cuendet
> past. To make Evolution for Windows would be reinventing the wheel > since Windows already has Outlook. If your Windows users are already Yes, Outlook is a GREAT program, but: - It's microsoft, so it will NEVER run on Linux... - It's costly > using Outlook, then what would be the difference