Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Tue, 02 May 2006 08:28:06 -0500, Steven Shelton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Along the lines of the "What's the roadmap because we want to spread
accurate information" query, I remember a year or two ago when this
topic came up there was a great deal of movement to work with the
Mozilla people to make an API to integrate Thunderbird into OOo as an
add-on (i.e., make the two easy to incorporate). Does anyone know
where this went?
Again this is missing the point the marketing list shouldn't solve the
problem since they are not in the position to solve it. They should
just come forward with an explanation on what is going on and what is
there to do.
Whoa, calm down there, hoss! Part of the function of a marketing
department (which is what the marketing project essentially is) is to
provide feedback and suggestions to the developers. If the marketing
people keep being asked why something isn't there, it seems that maybe
it should be (either as a default or an option), and since the
developers are the ones who have to implement it, it makes sense to both
communicate to them that there is a desire within the target audience
for a feature, and to offer suggestions/inquire as to the feasibility of
such a feature. Nobody's trying to solve the problem; just trying to
gather information.
For that matter, it should be a relatively simple matter to put a PIM
into OOo: just download the Mozilla Thunderbird code, tweak it a bit
to add the OOo graphics and "look and feel", and badda-boom,
badda-bing, you got yourselves a simple PIM/email client. IIRC,
Mozilla's license would allow this to be done. No need to reinvent
the wheel; just get it from a different supplier of wheels.
Any thoughts on this? I mean, it's such a simple solution that
someone else must have come up with this before, so there must be a
reason why it's not done.
This is totally irrelevant to the conversation.
Not at all, for the reasons above. If I thought of it, I'm sure someone
in the target audience will have, also, and will ask the question.
Anticipating questions is part of the job.
But tu answer you, the first big difference is the toolkit which are
different, there was a proof of concept where a developer wanted to
run OOo in XUL as opposed to the proprietary (in nature) of VLC.
Is not that easy since the toolkits are very different from each other.
Okay. That makes sense. Thanks!
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Steven Shelton
Twilight Media & Design
www.TwilightMD.com
www.GLOAMING.us
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