Re: [Evolution-hackers] PIM application suite

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 21:01 +0200, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > > Perhaps psychological. If we tell to our users "you don't have a local
> > > address book in the GnomeMeeting UI, but you can use the GNOME Contacts
> > > software to manage your GnomeMeeting contacts", it will be ok. However,
> > > if we tell them they have to run and install Evolution to manage their
> > > GnomeMeeting contacts, I think they won't accept it.
> > > 
> > > That doesn't disturb me to have our own address book in GM, but I think
> > > it would perhaps be better if we were using an external soft, and not
> > > only an external backend. 
> > 
> > I think it is purely psychological.  Is there much difference between
> > saying "install GNOME Contacts" or "install Evolution"?
> > 
> 
> Yes and no, because for most people Evolution is a mailer, that's the
> problem...

Well, I would hope people can see beyond that these days, things like
Outlook now contain NetMeeting stuff in there address book.  Perception
could be a problem though.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
Novell, Inc.