On 18/04/2008 15:37, Urbane Tiger wrote:
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It is not clear to me what people expect form an integated OOo/mail client
schema. I've never used MS Office and
Outlook in their integrated form, I've only used them independently. The only
post so far that has made sense to me was
on of "mike scott's" as I understood it he is suggesting that its the mail
client writers who should adopt the OOo
Writer core as their message composer for their mail client, I would add -- as
should NNTP client writers and anyone
else wanting a text based composer.
I think the main things expected from an "integated OOo/mail client
schema" are:
1. Ability to use Writer to compose (including Forward and Reply [all])
e-mail and news (NNTP) messages. Note that this should be an *option*,
even if all the necessary components are installed.
2. Ability, while doing #1, to *share* (as opposed to using copies of)
spell checking dictionaries.
3. Ability to use the mail client's address book from within Writer
and/or Calc and/or Base for things like mail merge or the generation of
lists or "tables" (in the English *and* Database senses of that word)
sorted by, say, post code (ZIP code) or city or surname or ...
4. Similar to #3 but for the purpose of writing an individual letter (to
be sent by snail mail) to someone whose address is in the e-mail
client's address book. It should be possible, within Writer for example
to "grab" (Insert Field?) a *complete* name/address from the address
book without having to specify many separate pieces (Title, Initial,
Surname, Street address, City, Post code, Country, etc.). The
definition of "complete name/address" should be easily specifiable by
the user with "sensible" defaults based on Locale.
Any more, anyone ???
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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