Re: [tdf-discuss] Co-working with Moz, etc

Please don't top-post in an in-lined thread. Thanks.

On 2011-01-02 1:18 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> On 1/1/11 8:36 PM, Lee Hyde wrote:
> > On 01/01/11 19:20, Craig A. Eddy wrote:
> > > So, what am I saying? You don't NEED to add something useless
> > > like Outlook or Evolution to LO. You just have to allow
> > > Thunderbird to connect to it, and people can make their own
> > > choice as to whether they want all the other bells and whistles.
> > > Therefore, no increase in size due to bundling but the advantage
> > > that those that WANT the extras can have them without difficulty

> > I agree, an integration add-on for Thunderbird (and any other
> > e-mail clients or contact managers with an add-on architecture)
> > would be a far better use of resources. Simply making contacts
> > available to LibreOffice would do wonders for mail-merge luck
> > functionality (for the life of me I can't think of any other
> > functionalities one would require of an outlook clone).

> besides email people want a calendar as well as a to do list as well
> functionality wise, which Thunderbird seems to lack.

Only if you fail to discover the excellent
if-not-still-a-little-lacking-in-functionality Lightning extension...

Personally, I couldn't use Thunderbird (or Firefox) in its default naked
state. I currently have 35+ extensions in TBird, and 51 for Firefox. And
now there are 4 or 5 that I must have in LibO...

Extensibility is one of the hallmarks of FLOSS, and one of the main
reasons I love it...

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Best regards,

Charles

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