Re: The future of gnome-pim - and Balsa, too?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On 13 Aug 2001 19:23:59 +0200, mads randstoft tellabs com wrote:
> Hello Again!
>  
> > addressbook: I think we can all see why this is needed, yes?
> 
> As an external, docakble app/applet yes...

this is exactly how Evolution works...

> 
> > calendar: this isn't generally needed by a single-user at home, but for
> > an office this feature is very useful. It allows people to schedule
> > meetings with each other and remind them of important dates/times/etc
> > via email - the most common form of communication over a network.
> 
> As an external, dockable app/applet, so that it can talk to the calender server
> I use (not a predefined one!)

Again, this is exactly how evolution works (well, *will* work once the
calendar talks to a server...currently it just saves to a local
database).

> 
> > Would you prefer we emulate what? CDE? Yea, I can just picture Joe
> > Computer User using CDE as their desktop. Riiiight.
> 
> I would prefer none emulated system... take the best bids (bits) of everything
> and not emulate an entire system because it have success at the moment (based
> on other things than design...)

That's pretty much what GNOME does.

Jeff

> 
> 
> - Mads "Mazzachre" Randstoft
> 
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