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

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 10:20 -0800, NoOp wrote:

> It is. Here is the original Ubuntu bug that I filed back in 2007:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/93546
>
> Thunderbird works in standard OOo & LibreOffice (linux 3.3.0 versions),
> however in OOo (and LO) there are still issues with using SeaMonkey
> address books, see:
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107809
>
> Ubuntu LO 3.3.0 (Natty Alpha 11.04 - OOO330m19 Build6) is still missing
> the address books listed in 93546.
>
> LO 3.3.0 (standard .deb installed on Ubuntu 10.10) has the same issues
> as 107809 - I reckon that they used the same code as OOo 3.3.0. But an
> LO dev is aware of the issue & hopefully working on it.

The problem I have with all this is, that in the end, once you wean
people off MS Office and IE, then there's not really a lot of purpose in
keeping Windows. The fact that the versions supplied with distros are
broken in this respect would, to me, be a serious barrier in doing
that...


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