Mozilla Thunderbird

[CB]

Keith Irwin wrote:

> 
> 
> I think they're trying to push personal information management down to
> the library level such that, say, an "address book" or "contact manager"
> is part of the infrastructure of the desktop itself, shareable by any
> application, but not any more required than, say, GConf or dbus.

OK, this is what I would mean by integration at the protocol or  api 
level, and I don't have a problem with that at all. I read the earlier 
post as implying that the desktop integration would require Evolution. 
That smacked to me of the Microsoft 'shallow' approach to integration 
ie. using their apps and suites (notably IE and Office) as the lynchpins 
for desktop integration (thus effectively mandating their use for the 
Windows platform).


> 
> I'm not a good apologist for this sort of stuff, but I think that what
> the evolution team is trying to do is commoditize, or refactor, a bit of
> functionality.  In other words, the PIM stuff is a database, with the
> email, IM, or other clients as user interfaces above that.  I'm thinking
> it's what Gnome folks want in their goal of making things easier.
> People seem to like that sort of thing in the Mac UI, don't they?

I would like all my apps to share the same pool of data. Ultimately that 
could, if done properly, make a fairly promiscuous approach to apps 
easier if anything.

I probably should have a direct read of what the Gnome team are up to 
before objecting.