Urbane Tiger wrote:
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:10:37 -0700, NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 04/16/2008 03:09 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Many people ask for an email client from OpenOffice.org, and these
people have either never heard of Thunderbird or have rejected it for
some reason. Thus, I suggest a different email client for OOo. See
this OOo bug:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88366
And how long do you figure that it would take David Harris to port to
Linux & Mac OS X? That is of course once the proprietary third-party
core editor issue is resolved...
Thunderbird currently supports Windows, Linux & Mac OS X, is opensource
(with Mozilla restrictions that are already acknowledged and used in OOo
- see the OOo THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.html), and localised for many
languages:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/all.html
Further, Thunderbird already has several million users, a vast support
network, and a considerable amount of add-in's/extensions (to include
Calendar/PIM).
Sorry, but I'd not vote for 88366.
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.
To those who say OOo should not slavishly do what Unclue Bill does, I would
point out that OOo has already done so;
times were when Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint were discrete products, Then
MS bundled them into Office, I believe
it was then that Star (hence OOo) slavishly followed suite (sic).
I think you'll find they're still discrete products, that just happen to
come in the same box. They are not integrated the way OpenOffice is.
You can see this, by opening text documents and spreadsheets at the same
time in both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. If you open the task
manager, you'll see both Word & Excel, but only one instance of OpenOffice.
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