Re: Thunderbird

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 02:55 -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote:
> Because of restrictions in Thunderbirds internal handling of the 
> addressbook, we cannot open a contact in Thunderbird directly. 

Lame.  Is there a bug filed upstream about this?

> Our solution was to write a separate program (much like the 
> ImLogViewer) to view thunderbird contacts, and offer the user some 
> basic options (like e-mail and edit the details).

Seems like a good idea.

> With this, we have mail and addressbook support in pretty spiffy shape.
> Probably to the point were we might want to consider getting it into CVS
> and starting the bugwork. But thats up to you all.

Yeah, I think we should move this into the repository soon.  The GNOME
CVS -> subversion migration happens a week from tomorrow.  My plan is to
heavily reorganize the source tree after that point.  How about we check
it in after that?

Joe