On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 10:57 -0700, Raul Acevedo wrote:
> It makes me want to run screaming.  :)  I actually like OpenOffice, but:
> 
> 1.  It's slow and bloated.  You'd have to guarantee I can have my mail
> composition window up and ready just as fast as Evolution's.
> 
> 2.  It would look weird.  OpenOffice doesn't use (I think) native GTK
> widgets, so it would look a bit strange.  Also, the thought of loading
> all those extra widget libraries makes me shudder.
> 
> However, I do like the idea of having more advanced editing
> functionality.  Why not go with something like AbiWord instead, which is
> faster and does use native widgets?

I guess I'll jump in here, since I used to ask about this sort of thing
long ago. I *hate* the idea of using a word processor to compose mail,
but I guess it takes all sorts. What I want to do is to use Emacs. I can
do this in Kmail (it has a clumsy but functional hook mechanism). Better
would be an embedding mechanism but it would presumably be
Gnome-specific and I use KDE. I'm not holding my breath.

poc

> Raul
> 
> On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 19:01 +0200, Sales Dept. Toltech Solutions wrote:
> > Dear List, 
> > 
> > Toltech is a Linux software integrator for the SME market.
> > In this respect we are migrating M$ users from outlook to evolution. 
> > Upon training our users we noticed complaints about lack of certain
> > composer features compared to MS Outlook, users in here use MS Word as
> > there email composer.
> > 
> > These are for example, autotext, advanced dictionaries, fonts, personal
> > preferences, etc, for outlook/word
> > 
> > Currently we evaluate OpenOffice as the closest replacement to MS Word
> > Now we wish to hear your opinion to have OpenOffice as a plugin for
> > Evolution, as a composer.
> > 
> > Basically we feel we should combine the best opensource software to
> > obtain the best usable result in order to compete/replace current
> > proprietary software. 
> > 
> > Kindly inform us your ideas etc. 
> > 
> > Kind Regards
> > 
> > JP van der Kuijl 
> > Marketing Manager 
> > Toltech Solutions BV
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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