[Novices] RE: Thunderbird Integration WAS: Evolution mail client

[Mark]

Ahhh, but it is likely.  Sort of, in the standard Unix way of
integrating, i.e., by building lots of little tools that CAN work
together but are built separately.  I believe the calendaring portion is
called the iCalendar project but I may be mistaken.  

This is more of a possibility now than when they started the Phoenix;
er, Firebird; er, Firefox project due to the adoption of XML and XUL.
(Yes, I know, they were around back in 1998 but it was not clear that
they would be universally adopted.)  These standards allow completely
separate applications to access the same data.  Additionally, Firefox
has pioneered truly easy-for-the-user-to-install-yet-maintain-stability
extensions. 

Now that Firefox has taken off (18 million downloads as of 1/18/05), I
suspect that integration by parts (pun intended) will follow shortly.

Mark

> -Mike Williams wrote:
<snip>
> It's unlikely Thunderbird will ever try to integrate calendaring and 
> other Evolution / Outlook tasks.  The point of the Firefox and 
> Thunderbird projects was to take one task and do it well, rather than 
> try to do everything poorly.  The original Mozilla source 
> tree might try