Re: Evolution Plugins (Was Re: Rise of the Plugins)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 17:33 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 12:56 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 16:55 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> >  
> > > > > Accepting appointments from mail-view, Mail-To-Task are all heavily used
> > > > > in corporate setups.
> > > > 
> > > > ... is really rather separate to great integration features. :-) You *can*
> > > > do these things without necessitating the Outlook suite interface (at least
> > > > for all users -- I do agree that some are going to be more comfortable with
> > > > the old-school UI for a while => see Kontact, but keep your glasses on).
> > > > 
> > > This should/would still work on a split mode, as these would integrate
> > > with EDS for tasks and calendars and not with the Evolution instances of
> > > calendar/tasks.
> > 
> > I use evolution as a mailer. I'd still prefer to have an address book
> > (as i use it from evo-the-mailer) that opens up in a separate window
> > that is designed to only be a address book instead of one that is put
> > inside the mailer shell. I don't think peoples desire to use addressbook
> > without the mailer is the only reason why you'd want the addressbook to
> > not be integrated in the evo shell. (Same for calendar.)
> 
> The main intention here would be to promote EDS and the apps written
> around it. I'm sure that in future you can use Evolution mail and for
> addressbook, you should be able to launch Contacts, or Evolution
> Addressbook or any other thing. Where in still You can auto-complete
> from your preferred Addressbooks and mail-to-task, accepting meetings
> etc will work. 

That sounds very good! Can I also click on "contacts" in the  switcher
and get the Contacts app?