On 17 Apr 2008 at 8:49, Harold Fuchs wrote: .. > a) I think that to some extent there should be integration between OOo and a > mail client. OOo can already use Thunderbird's address book as a data source
Agreed. But I think it goes further than that: to me as a user a main issue is simply "the text editor" - every program has its own with its own quirks and key-bindings, its own spell checker, etc, etc. I don't (no, make that won't) use Word/Outlook, but I assume a plus for that combo is commonality of those functions. Straight off the top of my head, maybe OOo could/should promote an /easy/ public standard interface (standardized across platforms of course) for all those common functions it can offer, so someone writing an email client (or whatever) could /easily/ use the OOo libraries/API for relevant functions. It would save endlessly reinventing the wheel, and give the poor user just a single editor/spell-check/whatever interface to learn. (For a loopy^Wspecialist extra example, I wrote a GUI a while back for a text-based music notation editor. It would have been very good to have ready access to the OOo editing engine - I settled for an existing second-rate notepad-like engine, simply because that already existed and I didn't want to get into that sort of code writing. I'd rather have had a better wheel to not reinvent :-) ) > for mail merge; that's a plus. It would be nice if the two could *share* > dictionaries for spell checking (currently they can only use *copies* of the > same files so you have to keep both copies in sync yourself). Simply > allowing both to point at the same file, via a config setting, would be > sufficient. > > b) Thunderbird, as mentioned, already runs on Windows and *nix. What hasn't > been mentioned, and which I think is a big plus, is that there's a portable > version that runs, on Windows, entirely from a USB key. All that work would > have (?) to be done again if some other mail client were used. Actually pegasus would too - I have the win32 binary on a freebsd fileserver available for the several XP boxes we have around; with judicious use of samba to map home directories plus a few symlinks, each user has a common config and mailboxes across the XP boxes. Of all the clients I've looked at, only pegasus and tb have been able to do this. But that's veering rather OT I think :-) -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
