On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 20:23, Ron Palmer wrote: > Jeff, > (off mailing list as I have made a mess of which email account I > registered with and jumping between email identities locally, sorry. > Just bounce it back to me if you reccon this is not an appropriate way > and I will delay this until I have sorted out my email addresses...)
It would be more appropriate to send to the list, but ah well. I'll just cc the list so future discussion can be there. > > Greetings from Melbourne, Australia, > I have a question and a suggestion re Evolution. > > I installed OpenOffice (free version of StarOffice) after I installed > Evo. Is there a way of having the option of OpenOffice the editor to > open attachments in? As is now, I am offered only Abiword or save to > disk. This is supposed toJust Work (tm) as far as I know, assuming you have the File Types capplet in the GNOME Control Center configured correctly of course. (don't ask me how, I don't know). > > Secondly, another area Evolution can get ahead of its competitors, and > particularly M$ Outlook, is in the area of tracking completed tasks. > > I normally have a pile of actions/tasks as well as a few appointments on > a daily basis. I am frequently going back to see what I did certain > days. I would be really useful if tasks completed would stay visible, as > completed (strike-out), on the day/date it was completed. Thus, if one > looked up a > certain date, appointments are, as before, presented and so are > completed tasks. This isn't my area of expertise so I can't answer this. > > Wrt tasks lasting longer times (and the issue of start date vs ending > date) I tend to use an appointment for longer tasks (tasks requiring > both starting and ending date to be registered). Outlook and others have > made a mess of this, just dispatching them after completion. > > Please let me know if the latter is feasible, but perhaps in another way > than I have approached it... I have no idea, I don't have on the Calendar component. Since this is being cc'd to [EMAIL PROTECTED], maybe someone else will be able to help you. Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
