Open Source Applications Foundation

[Design] Editor and Addresses

Mitch Kapor Sun, 20 Oct 2002 16:42:56 -0700


At 10:00 AM 10/20/2002, you wrote:

>Thank you for starting this, and I wish you every success.
>
>Two suggestions:
>
>1. Editor.
>
>Consider also allowing a user to specify his own preferred editor, as
>does pine, mutt, kmail and others.  For those that don't use HTML in
>email, it can be more important to use an editor that you're familiar
>with.  The value of HTML composition is ... debatable.  Consider the
>statement on the Design list's own page:

Good point.  Thank you.


>"To post a message to all list members, send email to
>design@osafoundation.org. Please send messages in "plain text" rather
>than HTML."
>
>2. Address store.
>
>I hope there will be integration with ldap?  At least to be able to
>connect with an existing server (although using ldap as Chandler's
>address store is at least conceivable at this stage of the game).

LDAP integration is absolutely in the long-term plan.  It's a question 
whether we will get it in Release 1.


>--
>Aaron
>aaron@justaaron.com