I believe integrating Thunderbird would be more a marketing move than anything else, but marketing is very effective!!! So that's why I think it would be great if Thunderbird could be integrated automatically with LO. As I said before, a sort of container that can select the applications ti be installed, probably giving the option by installation to select the individual appliciations: Writer(Text P.), Calc(Spreadsheet), Impress(Presentations),..., Thunderbird(E-Mail), Lightning(Calendar).
Cheers! Jaime R. Garza On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 15:22, Christophe Strobbe < christophe.stro...@esat.kuleuven.be> wrote: > > At 00:19 3/01/2011, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > >> What do other devs think about including something as mentioned below >> somehow in regards to a mail client alternative to MS outlook? >> > > I've been working without an "integrated e-mail client" for years; it's not > a priority for me. However, when I recommended OpenOffice.org to another > user (before October last year), she asked if it also contained an Outlook > alternative. I replied that alternatives exist elsewhere, e.g. Thunderbird. > (I just checked that Corel WordPerfect Office Standard has Lightning and > Thunderbird integrated. The toll of Microsoft Office brainwashing? As far as > I can tell from the Wikipedia entry, iWork does not have an e-mail client. > Nor do SoftMaker Office 2010 or Kingsoft Office 2010.) > > Without a proper survey, we can probably only guess how many users expect > an e-mail cient in an office suite. > So I can only offer my opinion: the ability to interface with e-mail > clients would be a useful feature. Some users don't want to migrate to > another mail client just because it is included in the LibreOffice download, > but other users - I'm thinking of users new to office suites and e-mail - > may appreciate some handholding. If an e-mail client were integrated in the > LibreOffice download, I would like the option to exclude it from the > installation and have the office suite interface with my installed client > (assuming that it implements the necessary APIs). > > I haven't mentioned forking an existing mail client; that's because I don't > consider it a good way to use TDF community resources. > > Best regards, > > Christophe > > > > On 1/2/11 7:49 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: >> >>> On 2011-01-01 1:43 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: >>> >>>> Whats really held OOo and will hold LO back is the lack of an equivalent >>>> program such as outlook. >>>> >>> Well, I disagree, but there is no way to prove one of us is right, so... >>> >>> 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 >>>> >>> Evolution is extremely buggy, *especially* on Windows, but yes, even on >>> *nix... Yes, there are many people who run it without problems, but >>> there are far more who complain of constant crashes and bugs, even on >>> the stablest of systems (otherwise)... >>> >>> 2) or install software that already exists in the open source arena. >>>> >>> Thunderbird+Lightning would be the best other choice here...not perfect >>> by any stretch, but the only viable FLOSS alternative on Windows at the >>> moment, at least that I am aware of... >>> >>> the problem with 2 is that it will greatly increase the download size, >>>> which >>>> would pose issues for people with slow bandwidth. >>>> >>> Thunderbird+Lightning is not that big... >>> >> > > -- > Christophe Strobbe > K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD > Research Group on Document Architectures > Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 > B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee > BELGIUM > tel: +32 16 32 85 51 > http://www.docarch.be/ > Twitter: @RabelaisA11y > --- > "Better products and services through end-user empowerment" > www.usem-net.eu - www.stand4all.eu > --- > Please don't invite me to Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You > may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't. > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org<discuss%2bh...@documentfoundation.org> > Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
