Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> Regardless of that, even if Google was (and I think possibly is) the
> greatest company to ever touch a keyboard, limiting OpenOffice.org to
> one email provider is a step in the wrong direction. Providing links
> into Thunderbird would be different than, say, providing links into
> AOL's email. 
> 
Rewriting thunderbird to do this is a presumably large job which no one is 
going to fund. Google is already sitting on the edge of the bed with Sun, 
and might not mind a hand -- oh, I don't like where that metaphor is 
going... 

I don't think one would be removing any functionality from OOo: simply 
adding some that might be useful.


> Now, I am by no means against providing links into Gmail (as I use
> Gmail, and would like to use OOo to email with), but I don't think
> that would solve the problem.

Sure. But it's like my proposal about character formatting earlier -- a 
simple way forward that solves part of the problem for some of the people 
who feel it. Since gmail has an api, and OOo is quite easy to script, a 
macro/addon that sent the current document as either plain text or html 
through gmail seems perfectly possible. 

The real problem is calendaring and contact management. If Google offered 
those things web-based, stuff would get really interesting.

-- 
Andrew Brown
The email in the header does not work.
Contact details and possibly useful macros from
http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html


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