Andrew Brown wrote:
Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 00:53 -0500, Chad Smith wrote:
I understand that OpenOffice.org is holy, and perfect, and is not to
be questioned. If something is missing, it *SHOULD* be missing. If
something hogs memory, it *SHOULD* hog memory.
Go away Chad, and come back when you get rid of the sarcasm, ranting
and raving.
I know the internet is an infantilising medium, but do we really have to
behave like fourteen-year-old schoolgirls? If you find Chad unbearably
uncool, killfile him already.
He had a very good point, perhaps best made by raving. It really doesn't
matter to me whether I send a document by email or by post -- I'd like to
be able to edit them in the same program, to look up the information about
the recipient in the same place, and so on and so forth. This is a
perfectly reasonable thing for people to want and MS does it better than
anyone else.
It's probably very wise of Sun not to spend resources on doing that right
now -- and no one else, as we know, does any of the heavy lifting. But if
ever anyone did come up with a solution that integrated OOo with a first
class open source contacts manager and scheduler properly, this would be
praised as the most innovative step forward in the entire history of the
software industry by almost everyone on these lists, especially those who
most vocally despise Outlook.
Good points.
I never understood this whole process of why people would want Outlook
like features within OOo. My self, I would despise more applications
within OOo.
There are many great applications for email available. The whole idea
of is choice and integrating an application within OOo would limit
choices. Any application would have to work cross platform and this
creates it's own set of headaches as it still would not satisfy all
those that are asking for more.
Didn't the earlier versions of Star Office include a email client and
WWW browser and work like a desktop? You opened the application that
you wanted? Oh so many years ago....
As for Chad. Yea he is a pain but sometimes a pain is required to
find what is wrong. He does provide some valid opposition to the
many. This is needed to keep OOo a great product and to help it get
even better.
I for one would rather see a front end that ties into
Thunderbird/Mozilla instead of a separate application. Of course I
like using the command line as well.
Robin
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