Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Using external addressbooks as a data source

On 08-02-11 16:00, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> Le 08/02/11 14:05, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit :
>
> Hi Gordon,
>
> > Installed 3.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 using the Libreoffice repository.
> > Going into File-Wizards-Address Data Source the ONLY thing that is
> > selectable is "Other external Data Source" - there's NO option to select
> > an email addressbook. The data sources pane shows Evolution - I don't
> > use Evolution, I use Thunderbird.
>
> FWIW, you can't do this on Mac either, but you can, on the other hand,
> connect to the Mac Address Book.
>
> BTW, this is also unavailable on the Mac version of OOo.
>
>
> I seem to recall that the OOo base team dropped support for TB because
> it meant compiling in source code from Mozilla when building the
> LibreOffice packages, and that in itself was a totally unnecessary
> nightmare, and in additionally, it was read-only anyway when it did sort
> of, kind of, work. Why it is still available on Windows I don't really know.
Thundebird has a good export functionality!

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