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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Mail/News composer proposal
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-06-22 16:05:25
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have been thinking a bit, and had this idea.
> > Why don't we make a separate app to compose email and news?
> > 
> > Sort of a specialized editor (plus support for external editor).
> > 
> > I don't see any reason to have that bundled with the reader itself, and
> > since there are at least 4 mail/news readers in development, it's quite a
> > bit of code reuse.
> > 
> > Am I missing anything obvious?
> > 
> 
> Addressbook. Should be possible to add to it from readers and get from it
> in composer. This would means either:
> 
> - enfore use of standard desktop AB (kab ?) 

We should all migrate to a common addressbook anyway, shouldn't we? :-)

> - bundle addressbook with composer and enforce all readers use it
> - define a common interface and have all readers comply, then learn
> composer use the reader-of-choice's internal addressbook.

This is more difficult, but it is also feasible. Wasn't there a
addressbook IDL project?

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