On 04/20/2008 03:54 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 20/04/2008 18:07, James Knott wrote:
>> ISTR, there was some mention a while ago, about improving >> interoperability between OOo and Thunderbird. It already works well. >> So, just include a link to mozilla.org, with a recommendation for >> Thunderbird. Nothing else is required nor desirable. >> >> > It barely works at all: > - double updating of spell check dictionaries Does this not work for you? http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/dictionaries.html [don't know as I've not used it & use SeaMonkey instead of TB] Perhaps you can try using OOo and Outlook/OE dictionaries? > - separate and different text entry interfaces I suppose that it would be nice to enable OOo to compose a text only document and have it inserted as text in TB rather than using copy & paste. I can't imagine why you'd want to go the other way though (compose and use TB as the editor for OOo). > - no way easily to grab an e-mail address from a TB address book and > include it in a Writer/Calc document I think that there is (a way) as you can grab the address book from TB/Netscape/SeaMonkey) and use it as a datasource. Certainly the data is available; perhaps it is just a matter of: 1) knowing how to use it, or 2) creating an added gizmo/button to paste from the datasource into the document. > - no way easily to grab a snail mail address from a TB address book and > include it in a Writer/Calc document See above. > - no way easily to build a list of names or other details from a TB > address book into a Writer/Calc document >From TB you can export the address book as a csv which can easily be opened in Calc. > > I don't think this is a reasonable definition of good interoperability. > I suspect that it is as good, or better, than that of OE. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
