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List: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: konqueror components
From: Simon Hausmann <tronical () gmx ! net>
Date: 1999-02-16 19:04:21
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>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.
I just fully agree in _every_ part of this mail.
Ciao
Simon
>Cheers,
>Waldo
>--
>KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today
>http://www.kde.org
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