Bret Busby wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Robin Laing wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, RJKoning wrote:
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:45:09 -0400
From: RJKoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [email protected]
Subject: [discuss] we need an "outlook" component to the suite
We need an "outlook" type component to complete the suite. Is one
available?
Are we building one?
This was discussed last month (and possibly many times previously).
And will be discussed for the next XX months/years until there is a
tie in to Thunderbird or another application.
I cringe everytime someone askes for an Outlook like client. I find
that the interface is terrible.
--
Robin Laing
But, what was in Star Office 5.2 was good; only problem, from memory,
was that I could not get email filtering to work for me, and I think
that one did not like high volumes of email (hundreds or thousands of
messages each day).
But, Star Office 5.2 had good ideas and components. Some of the
components just needed a bit of strenghtening.
It had what these people are seeking.
I think that I still have web sites and web pages, that I wrote using
Star Office 5.2.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
That was so long ago and I really didn't like it.
I have learned long ago that I do not like integrated programs. There
are to many restrictions. This is why I don't use Seamonkey. Yet my
wife does.
The filtering is why I prefer Thunderbird over Evolution. On my
computer/network, I have had to wait hours to get my mail filtered from
the exchange server. I am not kidding, I am talking hours and I am not
talking over 500 messages. Yet in Thunderbird using fetchExc, It only
takes minutes to get all my mail and have it sorted in TB.
I have to use Outlook on one network and it is slower and more
complicated than TB is so many ways. In my opinion, it is an awful
interface.
With a modern Linux interface, it is so easy to integrate applications
to work almost like an integrated application. In OOo I can select File
and then Send and from there I can choose which way I want to send the
file. Can it get much easier than that? It then opens a compose window
in TB just as if I had saved the document and then clicked on TB.
This way I can choose what applications I prefer to use for what purpose.
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Robin Laing
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