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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Feature request?
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-01-27 14:29:32
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On Saturday 26 January 2002 22:16, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Saturday 26 January 2002 20:47, Michael Häckel wrote:
> >
> > If you now start a poll, what people want to see most in KMail, you
> > probably get:
> >
> > 1. Merge it with KNode, KOrganizer, KArm, KPilot and Kandy and call
> > the result KOutlook.
> >
> > Well, 1. won't happen,
>
> At least it won't be called KOutlook. But why shouldn't we put some
> of these programs together in a KOffice like shell? The only thing
> which we had to do is make a KPart out of KMail. But this wouldn't be
> such a bad idea. KMail could then still be used either as standalone
> application or as one of multiple plugins in the Kommunication shell
> or even as plugin in Konqueror (at least the KMComposer part).

One additional problem is that the different programs now primarily use 
DCOP for interaction. If they all run in a single shell process this 
isn't possible anymore. There are solutions for that, but it would 
require some more changes.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
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