Re: [libreoffice-users] Has it all except ... #2

Le 2011-03-14 09:59, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit :
> .....
> Virtual Access (www.virtual-access.org) - their web site states:
> [quote]
> Virtual Access is a mature and well established Windows mail, news and 
> conferencing product ......
> [unquote]
> What if you use Linux or Mac OSX? It would be nice to find a similar 
> "main, news, and conferencing product" that works for Windows, Linux 
> .deb [32/64-bit], Linux .rpm [32/64-bit], and Mac OSX.

What struck me is not the Windows-only application, but rather the 
description of a programme in vague terms. It's a concept, and it may be 
a very good concept, but for a guy like me who is satisfied with 
Thunderbird and could be satisfied with Outlook, what would I gain with 
Virtual Access? Or even with a presentation like Google Mail?

– Conversations? I already have them in Thunderbird. Messages are 
organized by threads (real ones, not pseudo ones like Outlook). But 
what's the point in reading "conversations" and having quoted parts 
automatically closed if people reply on top?

– News... Except for a few geeks, I think the medium is mostly dead.

– Conferencing: Yes, that's missing from Thunderbird and Outlook. The 
latest version of Outlook does a bit of it, but in a fairly cumbersome 
way that looks like an afterthought. What is needed is a kind of white 
board. It should use the address book found in Thunderbird or Outlook 
(or System contacts), but should probably be a separate application 
because it requires much more overhead than email. I like Thunderbird 
because I can leave it open in the background. Not sure I could do that 
with a heavier application, especially if I want to build a few macros 
in Calc, use InDesign, Photoshop and, why not, a modelling program.

As far as integration between mail and LibreOffice, I don't think mail 
needs to be integrated into LibreOffice and I don't think it should 
unless integration goes way beyond what's done between Outlook and the 
rest of the Microsoft Office suite. Practically, I think the following 
integration aspects could be improved in LibreOffice without developing 
a new email software:
– better access of Thunderbird Address book or Outlook address book for 
mail merge documents (i.e. no need to export the address book first)
– better integration of Thunderbird in Exchange or Exchange-like 
platforms (but that's a Thunderbird problem, not a LibreOffice problem).


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Michel Gagnon – michel@mgagnon.net <mailto:michel@mgagnon.net>
Montréal (Québec, Canada) – mgagnon.net <http://mgagnon.net>


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