-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13-Sep-2002/13:25 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com> wrote:
I would say that we don't have any primary competition. This is Unix afterall, and Outlook is Windows.
Technically correct, although I'm sure you're intelligent enough to have grasped the point. Evo needs to provide the capabilities that Outlook users are accustomed to if it is to gain market share. Ximian didn't create the Connector just because they had some spare time.
Also Windows and Unix do things differently. Maybe Windows doesn't have a way to configure a banner page and so in Windows a program *must* print the user's name itself.
Unix has that capability, yet a2ps does the same thing as Outlook and Eudora.
Yes, exactly. I was almost sure that outlook did that, but didn't want to mention it just in case I was wrong. :-) Banner pages are an idea, but I KNOW I would get yelled at for wasting paper when all they want is their name at the top of the page.Wasting a single page? Man, and I used to work for the Department of Environmental Protection and people weren't *that* insane.
Regardless, people who use Evo in organizations are probably also using networked printers. Adding the user's full name, as configured within Evo, is a good idea. I may have made the same suggestion myself except that I have not yet had that problem; I'm the only Evo user in my office.
Also, as NotZed said earlier - it's a waste of time to solve it in Evolution when every other application will also either need to be fixed or have the print system setup a banner page. Might as well solve the problem once and forall by just using a banner page if that's what people want.
Granted, this will not solve the overall problem, but it will add a familiar feature for those who are accustomed to Outlook. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:Anthony%20E %20Greene%20%3Cagreene pobox com%3E> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <mailto:agreene pobox com> 0x6C94239D iD8DBQE9gj5fpCpg3WyUI50RAl6qAJ9oo6sSIP2gcfmkMFryBv1plwr6lACg8IGn b/Eb3MvcUnSChvbEmrqx3zY= =IHQd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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