[ubuntu-uk] Libre Office and Thunderbird Addressbook

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

On 14/06/11 22:14, Colin Law wrote:
> On 14 June 2011 22:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker<gbplinux at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS!
>> Ubuntu 11.04 and Libre Office 3.3.2.
>> the Ubuntu version of Libre Office will STILL NOT USE the Thunderbird
>> addressbook as an address data source!
>>
>> WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU CANONICAL?
>> WHY CANNOT YOU IMPLEMENT THIS VERY SIMPLE FUNCTION?
>> Why do those of us who don't like Evolution have to remove the
>> Ubuntu-supplied Office suite (and this has been going on for YEARS) and
>> replace it with the suite downloaded directly from the suite site?
> Could you provide a link to the bug report please?
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin
>
It's not a bug, it's the way Canonical add the Office suite to Ubuntu. 
It's been going on for years with Open Office and now they've done the 
same with LO...
If you use Evolution then OO (or LO I presume, I uninstall Evolution 
because I never use it) will use the Evolution Addressbook but not 
anything else.
If you uninstall the Canonical-supplied Office suite and install direct 
from OO ot LO then the TBird addressbook can be used as a data source.