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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: CORBA in mail clients (was Re: CORBA Book)
From:       <uwe () uwix ! alt ! na>
Date:       1999-04-08 14:57:41
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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:

> 
> As a complete idiot (In the village where I live, I am indeed the
> village idiot), I don't understand CORBA and probably won't for a long
> while.
> 
> Some people have asked me whether my mail client (Empath) will support
> CORBA.
> 
> Thing is, I don't know what CORBA would be useful for.
> 
> I know you can embed bits of your app in other apps. Great, but do you
> really want to read your mail from konqueror or use the mail client's
> compose widget in KWord ? And do you want to see mail notifications in
> KWord's statusbar ?

Think of it the other way round. Wouldn't it be cute  if you could plug
in an MP3 player in case you got such an attachment? Just as an example.

> 
> Wouldn't it be more likely that people would want to open their mail
> client to read and send mail ? I suppose it would be nice if KWord could
> have a 'send to' option, but wouldn't this be better done by performing
> some simple header creation and passing to sendmail ?

There are a lot of standalone boxes with dialup accounts and POP
mail boxes at their ISPs. Most of them don't run sendmail because
they don't need it.

Uwe

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