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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On 14 Aug 2001 09:17:55 +0200, mads randstoft tellabs com wrote:
> Hello Again (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...
> 
> Nice, So I can use my company hp-openmail address book in evolution??
> (Considering one isn't written yet that might not be possible, but once it is
> written)

It will need to implement the interfaces that Evolution needs. If it
doesn't, then you'd need to write a wrapper or something...but once that
was done, then yes.

> 
> > > > calendar: this isn't generally needed by a single-user at home, but for
> > > As an external, dockable app/applet, so that it can talk to the calender
> server
> > 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).
> 
> So a Netscape calender applet will be written??

It could be done, but I haven't heard about anyone writing one so I
can't say that "it will be written".

> 
> > That's pretty much what GNOME does.
> 
> That is the reason i am using gnome at the moment (Among other reasons, it was
> the one that reminded me most of Amiga WB) But if someone starts to emulate
> windoze for the sake of capering windoze users, I, for one, would be very
> unhappy...
> 
> BTW: I have seen screenshots from Evolution, Not a very good GUI... Granted is
> is made to look like Outlook, but since outlook is possibly the worst
> mailclient ever made, I can't see why a better aproach is not taken... Users
> can easily ajust to other GUI forms... My girlfriend have dumped outlook for
> Eudora after a few hours of usage...Anyway, if everything is made from easily
> reusable modules, one could build a better interface quickly...

It seems most people are different from your girlfriend - most people
prefer Outlook over Eudora and Lotus Notes and Netscape mail, and ...the
list goes on. It's also one of the more RFC compliant mailers out there
(despite what people like to believe).

I personally thought Eudora was much less intuitive than Outlook. I have
yet to find a client more intuitive than Outlook that has the same
featureset.

Jeff

> 
> - Mads "Mazzachre" Randstoft
> 
> 
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