Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Common address book

[Marc Higgins <mhiggins hunny be>]

a

anything else would be inconvenient, unintelligent


On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 19:58 +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote:
> Damien Sandras wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have had private e-mail exchanges with one person who thinks that
> > having a common address book shared by GNOME applications like Ekiga and
> > Evolution is a bad idea, and that it would be better to have a separate
> > address book for Ekiga and a separate one for Evolution.
> > 
> > He also thinks that I am not following the advice of my users and that I
> > impose my own view of the project without taking into account external
> > ideas. (The same rant about the new name was mentioned again).
> > 
> > So I would like to do a quick poll on the mailing list. 
> > 
> > Please choose a), b) or c) :
> > a) I think that it is better to have a common address book for all
> > applications if possible
> a)
> 
> As long as it is configurable, a) is the choice.
> 
> My usual objection on "desktop integrations" is that it needs too much
> glue that translates to many configuration files (or GUIs - worse!) in
> different subsystems. And not everybody has to run LDAP server and even
> those who try to provide free LDAP service are swamped and down by the
> many requests eventually ;-)
> 
> > b) I think it is better that all applications have their own address
> > book, I don't want my contacts to be shared between the different
> > applications I am using
> > c) I do not care.
> 
> Kalin.
>