[Chandler-dev] What is next for Chandler desktop?

[Grant Baillie]

On 6 Sep, 2007, at 14:26, Brian Kirsch wrote:

> ...
> Of course I would love to see a full featured email client in there  
> as well but the realist in me says that probably is not possible. I  
> envision continued enhancement to the current plan of mail  
> providing a gateway to bringing in and sharing data in Chandler  
> with out fully replacing ones standalone mail client.

Ultimately, though, the gateway approach is limited (especially since  
it relies on IMAP, whose usage is currently dwarfed by POP and/or  
webmail IIRC). Since email is so central to "information work", a  
question to ask is: What further email support (if any) do we need to  
have to convince users (@ funding expiration) that there's a hope of  
us integrating email at some point?

If the answer is "None", then maybe we can get away with only luring  
in new users with nice shiny features(*) on top of Preview.

--Grant

(*) nice and shiny on the outside, at any rate :)