From kde-core-devel Fri May 11 17:52:47 2001 From: mosfet Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 17:52:47 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Default KDE address book X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=98960382020927 Don't have anything useful to contribute to this thread except abbrowser sits on my kicker panel and I use it all the time for phone numbers as well as emails ;-) It's quite cool and I think would make a great default for KMail. Stephan Kulow wrote: > > On Friday, 11. May 2001 18:50, Lars Knoll wrote: > > I can only agree. The tradtional kmail address book is a pain to use and > > should have been faded out before KDE-2. The KAB frontend is better, but > > still far behind abbrower IMO. abbrowser offers everything you need for an > > adressbook application is easy to use and integrates well into kmail. We > > should really make it the default for KDE-2.2 and get rid of the other > > variants. > > > > It is IMO _very_ important, that the default settings of applications (even > > if they still offer other alternatives) point to the implementation of a > > certain feature (in this case an addressbook), that provides the best > > solution for the problem, and not default to some mostly useless > > implementation. > > > yes, yes, yes. Traditional kmail and kab both can't stand any serious > usability testing I'm afraid :( > > Use abbrowser and integrate it into kmail. > > Greetings, Stephan > > -- > People in cars cause accidents. Accidents in cars cause people.