On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 19:49 +0200, Damien Sandras wrote: > Le dim, 18/04/2004 Ã 13:44 -0400, JP Rosevear a Ãcrit : > > > Yes, and I agree that having one separate application to manage the > > > contacts in all apps would be better. > > > > > > I'm currently forced to have an internal address book in GnomeMeeting, > > > because I don't want to tell people that they have to install the whole > > > Evolution "suite" to be able to manage their GnomeMeeting contacts. > > > > > > Conclusion, there is effort duplication : Evolution and GnomeMeeting > > > will both have their own address book (sharing the same backend which is > > > better) when there could be only one specialized program to do it. > > > > This was the purpose of e-d-s, don't confuse the UI of the app with the > > data storage mechanism. The gnome meeting guys are already looking at > > using the e-d-s data storage mechanism. Whether the gui part is in > > I'm the "GnomeMeeting guys" ;)
Aha! I thought i recognized the name, but i just woke up :-). > > Evolution or a separate app makes little difference. > > > > Perhaps psychological. If we tell to our users "you don't have a local > address book in the GnomeMeeting UI, but you can use the GNOME Contacts > software to manage your GnomeMeeting contacts", it will be ok. However, > if we tell them they have to run and install Evolution to manage their > GnomeMeeting contacts, I think they won't accept it. > > That doesn't disturb me to have our own address book in GM, but I think > it would perhaps be better if we were using an external soft, and not > only an external backend. I think it is purely psychological. Is there much difference between saying "install GNOME Contacts" or "install Evolution"? -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
