On 19/04/2008, mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Exactly. Well put. Although I think I'd prefer it if it were the OOo/Mozilla team (assuming TB gets used) that supplied the code. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
