Please don't top-post in an in-lined thread. Thanks. On 2011-01-02 1:18 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > On 1/1/11 8:36 PM, Lee Hyde wrote: >> On 01/01/11 19:20, Craig A. Eddy wrote: >>> 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
>> I agree, an integration add-on for Thunderbird (and any other >> e-mail clients or contact managers with an add-on architecture) >> would be a far better use of resources. Simply making contacts >> available to LibreOffice would do wonders for mail-merge luck >> functionality (for the life of me I can't think of any other >> functionalities one would require of an outlook clone). > besides email people want a calendar as well as a to do list as well > functionality wise, which Thunderbird seems to lack. Only if you fail to discover the excellent if-not-still-a-little-lacking-in-functionality Lightning extension... Personally, I couldn't use Thunderbird (or Firefox) in its default naked state. I currently have 35+ extensions in TBird, and 51 for Firefox. And now there are 4 or 5 that I must have in LibO... Extensibility is one of the hallmarks of FLOSS, and one of the main reasons I love it... -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
