Hi Dotan; On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 12:55 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 20/04/2008, William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I am asking this sincerely, not to start a flame war. > > > > I use Outlook about once a week in WinowsXP. The rest of the time I am > > in Linux. I really don't understand why people feel they need an email > > client as part of the OOo suite. In my experience Outlook does nothing > > extra to what is available in any Linux distribution. > > > > What are they looking for that I have missed? > > They are not looking for something that you missed. They are looking > for something that you found. They are looking for an email client. > They do not know that Thunderbird or any other email client exists. > OOo needs to say "Hey! We know that MSO had an email client, but we > don't. Go try Thunderbird or $otherEmailClient". > > Dotan Cohen That is why I suggest; just provide Windows users of OOo a launcher/icon/button on the toolbar that says 'email program' and in preferences a simple locater that says "Add your favourite email program" and be done with it. Frankly, I keep an Evolution launcher and a Compose launcher on my upper panel and that does everything to duplicate the Outlook experience.
I always sympathize with the frustrations, and flusters of first time users. If email-client launching is giving them a hard time getting started using OOo -- give it to them. Regards Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
