On 19 Apr 2008 at 9:17, Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 18/04/2008, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Drew Jensen wrote: > > > <snip> > > Who said anything about dictating a choice... With that rational an install > > > of Kubuntu should have no applications by default...after all it is just > > > an > > > OS right. > > > > > > > > Who? Those who think OpenOffice should include an email app. > > > Nonsense. I don't think any of us who think OOo would benefit from an > "integrated" e-mail application has ever even thought the word "dictate", > let alone said it. It would be nice to have the choice. > > On the contrary, it's the scheme's opponents who *dictate* that you have to > double-update your spell check dictionaries, that you have to learn & use > two different text-entry interfaces and that you simply are not allowed > easily to get at useful data like your correspondent's snail mail addresse > when writing a letter.
I think two issues are being conflated in this thread. Firstly, ready ability to make email (and other) apps "compatible" with OOo -- eg commonality of data bases and editing facilities. Secondly, whether an email app should be "bundled" or "integrated" with OOo itself. They are logically quite separate. One is a purely technical issue, the other political. It might help to treat them that way, or there'll be a lot of crossed-purpose discussion. Refusal, for example, to provide an integrated email app doesn't affect the first issue one jot - #1 to my mind is the more important anyway, as it's a prerequisite for making a decent job of the second, and with an easy API, someone, somewhere even if not the OOo team would be sure to create some useful code. -- 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]
