Re: Thunderbird

[Kevin Kubasik <kevin kubasik net>]

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Joe Shaw wrote:
> 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?
> 
No, agreed on the lamity, but to offer something like we would want
would be a pretty major structural overhaul for them, it might happen,
but personally, I wouldn't expect before 3.0... should still probably
file one though, I'll do it later.
>> 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?

Sounds perfect, I noticed we have a lot of old stuff sitting around the
repo, so once you reorganize and cleanup, let me know and I'll get you a
rough snapshot of it. luckily svn handles diffs with new directories
well, unlike a certain culprit *cough* CVS *cough*.
> 
> Joe
> 
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