[ubuntu-uk] LO in 11.10 STILL CANNOT USE TBird addressbook as an address data source!!!!!!!!!

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

On 19/10/11 09:03, Simon Greenwood wrote:
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> On 19 October 2011 08:25, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbplinux at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gbplinux at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 18/10/11 18:49, Dave Morley wrote:
>>     If it's things that are missing the likelihood is it's only a package
>>     away,  what you'll find is java can't be shipped by default and a lot
>>     of the packages can't ship without full java in place.
>>
>>     The online version comes with java builtin as LO and OO can ship it.
>>     What you'll find is there are several addition packages you can add to
>>     get the online version.
>>
>>
>     So how come prior versions were able to use Evolution Addressbook
>     by default then?
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>
> At one point StarOffice had a built in email client which I *think* 
> shares a fair bi t of architecture with Evolution. It was dropped in 
> version 4, before Sun bought it, but the address book remained so it 
> would appear that when Evolution and its data storage system were 
> integrated with Gnome, the API was still there.
>
> The change to Unity also includes a change to Desktop Couch as the 
> storage engine, principally because Evolution is still owned by 
> Novell. However, LibreOffice is still the same codebase as in the 
> pre-Oracle days so I would think it's not going to be straightforward 
> to introduce a new storage engine as a plugin. I have this terrible 
> feeling that at first it might have to be an ODBC data provider...
>
>
>

OK so why don't Canonical just provide the version of LO that comes 
direct from the LO website?

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