On 17/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, I wonder why people want OOo to have an intergrated > > email client? The volunteer programmers have enough to do > > making OOo the best Office Suite out there. > > > Completely agreed. It is way more important to have properly working > Charts, bibliography handling and stuff that is needed in creating > documents than one more integrated unrelated functionality. The swiss army > knife if good when you need something small that can do a lot of things at > an acceptable level. However, a good screwdriver is better than the > screwdriver on the swiss army knife and so is a hammer, a saw, a knife, a > pair of scissors and so on. > > I'd rather have a document editor that can not browse the web, read my > email and control the washing machine in my laundry but can do everything > I can ever dream of doing with a document. I'll be glad to use a mail > program to read my mail, a browser to browse the net and the Glaundry > package to control my washing machine. > > I know that it's ancient history, but in the early 70's the UNIX mantra > was: a tool should do only one thing but do that one thing well. The idea > being that it results in stability, maintainability, reliability. >
Truth is, I agree as well that an email client should _not_ be included in OOo. The only reason that people expect it to be there is because MS Office comes with an email client, however, chasing MS's tail is not the way to make a better office suit in my opinion. That said, if an email client is to be included, then Thunderbird is a bad choice, as it only creates more work for the OOo devs, without any benefit to the end user over installing Tbird by itself. If an email client is to be added, it should be something that adds to the user's experience in a way that is currently unavailable. Hence my Pegasus proposal. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
