Lately I have change a bit my tune the approach to e-mail. My motto has been
about OpenOffice.org is a productivity suite. Productivity means that you
produce something. However, 'Base' is not really a productivity suite and that
was the point when it break the analogy.
OpenOffice.org needs a email client, however people don't understand that most
people really want the calendar module more than the email client.
Another factor is that OpenOffice.org has the potential to have an
email client,
the now limited e-mail components in OpenOffice.org refered on the IDL
reference:
http://udk.openoffice.org/
But even if this interfaces get developed fully enough to get a full email
handligh on OpenDocuments. People really want to get the outlook
integration so
that if you click on a button it will launch OOo.
Here is where the Mozilla foundation and OpenOffice.org ermm.....community can
work together on develop the vehiecles of integration.
--
Alexandro Colorado
Co-Lider de OpenOffice.org Espanol
http://es.openoffice.org
Quoting Jonathon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Chad wrote:
Why? - WHY?
Because it makes *SENSE* to, that's why.
It makes absolutely no sense to include an email client in an office suite.
spell-checker should draw from the same list of words.
That is what elm is for.
It makes sense that since email is mostly words, and text documents
are mostly words, the interface should be similiar, if not identical.
But email and docuemtns are two completly different crittters. They
might have words in common, but that is _all_ they have in common.
It makes much more sense for OOo to be functionally equivalent to a
Dekstop Publishing Program, than to be functinally equivalent to an
email client.
contact information (Names, emails, addresses, phone numbers,
birthdays, relationships,
Those datapoints belong in a databse. How many email client can
reaed a _true_ database --- something thaty can be created and edited
using SQL?
For these, and I am sure dozens of other reasons,
How many email clients can read MySQL, Oracle, FireBird, SQLite or
similar databases?
it makes sense to have an email client as a part of your office
suite, whether that suite is
How can it make sense to include something, which is incapable of
using the tools it _needs_ to perform its function?
xan
jonathon
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