I remember my days of working for an outfit that used Outlook and MS products. I looked into Outlook for myself. I was not amused.
Years later I turned to Linux, and the particular distribution I chose installed Evolution by default. I looked into it. I was not amused. So I tried uninstalling it. Come to find out it had it's hooks into so much of the distribution that the distribution would have collapsed if I had uninstalled it. So I disabled it, instead. I used Thunderbird. And, shortly after, learned that there was a plug-in called Lightning that took care of the problem of a calendar. Hence Evolution (better named devolution) was unnecessary. Not only that, but the calendar in Thunderbird (Lightning) could be hooked up to the Google calendar, making it share-able (as an editor for the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter that was a bonus, since the events ended up being logged on that calendar, and I could transfer them to the newsletter without too much difficulty). So, what am I saying? You don't NEED to add something useless like Outlook or Evolution to LO. You just have to allow Thunderbird to connect to it, and people can make their own choice as to whether they want all the other bells and whistles. Therefore, no increase in size due to bundling but the advantage that those that WANT the extras can have them without difficulty Craig Tyche On 01/01/2011 11:43 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Whats really held OOo and will hold LO back is the lack of an equivalent > program such as outlook. > > There are one of three ways it can be done. > > 1) fork something like evolution which has all that done and integrate it > into the LO suite > > 2) or install software that already exists in the open source arena. > > the problem with 2 is that it will greatly increase the download size, which > would pose issues for people with slow bandwidth. > > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Cia Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:16:06 -0000 >> Zaphod Feeblejocks <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>>> The Go-oo homepage also says "Going forward, the Go-oo project >>>>> will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice." Does that mean >>>>> that LibreOffice is driven by Novell too? >> >>> Ways to resolve this include: >>> - Open (and easy to find) statistics on the numbers of current >>> developers on LibO and their background. >>> - More clear input from Google, etc., towards easy integration with >>> Google Docs (in the way that the MSO integration with the web-based >>> version of MSO will become something users expect). >>> - Joint-branding with Thunderbird, Scribus, etc. There have been many >>> posts on the OOo lists over the years asking "do you do a calendar?" >>> or "Do you have a Publisher replacement". No, we don't - but clearly >>> promoting other open source projects and working with them to make >>> life easy for people coming away from MSO helps all people. >> >> Since this looks a little like a wish-list, I thought I'd add mine. (Or >> am I engaging in wishful thinking? :-) ) >> >> I think it would be nice to be able to open AbiWord documents (.abw) >> that render properly. LibO (and OO) Writer will open the file, but >> there's a lot of coding visible, I'm guessing it's xml code. I can >> open odt files just fine in AbiWord (as well as doc and docx files) >> and they render properly; but the reverse isn't true. Therefore, since I >> have some documents already in abw format, I generally stick with >> AbiWord for my few word-processing needs. >> >> Happy New Year to all! >> >> Cia W >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to >> [email protected]<discuss%[email protected]> >> Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ >> *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** >> >> > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
