Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-14 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 14/07/2011 16:03, David B Teague sr ha scritto: On 7/14/2011 9:17 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: Yes, MSO has faster startup times also IME, at least on windows. On Ubuntu 10.04 I must say that the provided OOo takes a little time when first started after a reboot, but from then on, given suffici

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-14 Thread David B Teague sr
On 7/14/2011 9:17 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: Yes, MSO has faster startup times also IME, at least on windows. On Ubuntu 10.04 I must say that the provided OOo takes a little time when first started after a reboot, but from then on, given sufficient memory (I have 2.5GB) it starts almost instant

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-14 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 14/07/2011 11:44, Stefano Fraccaro ha scritto: Hi Marcello Hi Il 14/07/2011 11.20, Marcello Romani ha scritto: OOo/LibO has options to talk to e-mail programs. IMHO adding yet another (almos unrelated) program to an already huge office suite would be a bad move. I guess then people would

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-14 Thread Stefano Fraccaro
Hi Marcello Il 14/07/2011 11.20, Marcello Romani ha scritto: OOo/LibO has options to talk to e-mail programs. IMHO adding yet another (almos unrelated) program to an already huge office suite would be a bad move. I guess then people would "gravitate back to MS" because either: a) OOo is too "h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-14 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 12/07/2011 18:46, Shane Van Loenen ha scritto: I could not find a place on the website to list a feature request, so I will try here. Open Office and Libre Office are great tools that can be used in the enterprise, but since there is not an e-mail client, my org will gravitate back to MS. An

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-14 Thread Tom Davies
asked for help because people are obviously using MSO in ways that are not obvious. Regards from Tom :) From: planas To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 14 July, 2011 0:31:10 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution Lorenzo On Wed,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-13 Thread planas
Lorenzo On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 11:45 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Hi, > > Shane Van Loenen wrote: > > I could not find a place on the website to list a feature request, so > > I will try here. Open Office and Libre Office are great tools that > > can be used in the enterprise, but since there

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-13 Thread Roland Hughes
The pathetic draw tool MS had before purchasing another company was actually part of office for a while. Now it usually only comes bundled with Corporate and super professional versions. They found people would pay for a drawing program. KOffice includes a pretty good drawing program bundled as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-13 Thread David B Teague sr
On 7/13/2011 11:20 AM, T. R. Valentine wrote: I can understand why software companies expand software products to do more and more things (to justify new versions, to convince chumps to 'upgrade', and to push other software companies out of the picture), but I do not understand those who buy into

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-13 Thread T. R. Valentine
I can understand why software companies expand software products to do more and more things (to justify new versions, to convince chumps to 'upgrade', and to push other software companies out of the picture), but I do not understand those who buy into such a process with its accompanying bloat. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-13 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, Shane Van Loenen wrote: > I could not find a place on the website to list a feature request, so > I will try here. Open Office and Libre Office are great tools that > can be used in the enterprise, but since there is not an e-mail > client, my org will gravitate back to MS. Anyway to integra

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-12 Thread planas
Hi On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 11:19 +1000, Simon Cropper wrote: > On 13/07/11 10:41, Tom Davies wrote: > > I could not find a place on the website to list a feature request, so > > I will try here. Open Office and Libre Office are great tools that > > can be used in the enterprise, but since there is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-12 Thread Tom Davies
utlook tho. More like a giant leap forwards apparently. Regards from Tom :) From: Simon Cropper To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 13 July, 2011 2:19:01 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution On 13/07/11 10:41, Tom Davies wrote: > I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-12 Thread Simon Cropper
On 13/07/11 10:41, Tom Davies wrote: I could not find a place on the website to list a feature request, so I will try here. Open Office and Libre Office are great tools that can be used in the enterprise, but since there is not an e-mail client, my org will gravitate back to MS. Anyway to integ

RE: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Out of curiosity, I assume that gravitation back to MS refers to Outlook. So what is compelling that would be needed in something integrated-in/bundled-with LibreOffice that would satisfy whatever that appeal is? I don't know anything about "Evolution (or like)", so I guess my question is, ho

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think that a lot of people use Thunderbird alongside LibreOffice. Apparently they work together quite well. Perhaps sadly people are given the option to chose rather than being forced into using 1 specific thing that might not suit their needs. Evolution seems quite complicated to me

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request :Evolution

2011-07-12 Thread Roland Hughes
Do you mean you want it to become like KDE Office where it has integrated email, word processing, calendar, database access, spreadsheet, presentations, etc. etc? I really think you will see IBM stop writing checks and offering up code if they try that. IBM used OO as a basis for Symphony so they