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List:       kde-i18n
Subject:    Re: konqueror components
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-02-16 14:41:15
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Teodor Romeo Mihai wrote:
> Well, I've been working for a few months now on a Outloook-clone for
> KDE, handling mail/contacts/schedule/journal/notes/groups. It is a bit
> different from all KDE applications I've seen, being very close to
> Outlook in look&feel rather than KMail - which I find unusable.
> If you are seriously planning to put mail in kfm, maybe you should
> consider some kind of integration with an external mailer, in
> Explorer/Outlook style.

I'm serious about integrating mail-viewing in Konqueror. (User point of
view).

I think it is a very bad idea to put mail-reading code in Konqueror/kfm 
(Developers point of view).

Konqueror should be able to display mail/mailboxes by embedding a mail-
viewer. This mail-viewer should (in the case of a mail-viewer) be a 
seperate application from a developers point of view, but should
integrate
seemless with Konqueror from the user point of view. This application
can be kmail, a light version of kmail, or any other application that
can display 
mails and supports this embedded KFM-view idea.

The technology to embed the mail-viewer should be something CORBA based.
Most likely KOM/Openparts. (Simon, is this correct?)

It should also be possible to make this Outlook-thing (does it have a
name?)
integrate with Konqueror in the same way.

I am not sure what outlook is. But I have the feeling that Outlook is
the kind
of program that wants to do everything itself, and as result, does
everything
very poorly. (like Netscape Communicator which I use to write this mail, 
correct me if I am wrong) 

Konqueror should do it better and the Unix way: Have speciliazed
components
which are very good in their task. Konqueror provides the seemless
integration
of them and provides easy navigation abilities.

Cheers,
Waldo
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