[desktop-discuss] REQ: Comments on latest desktop

[Garrett D'Amore]

Rich Teer wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Calum Benson wrote:
>
>   
>> With a bump to GNOME 2.16 coming soon, we'd like your feedback on the
>> current default desktop configuration, so we can consider any tweaks
>> that might be required to improve the user experience.
>>     
>
> Here are my thoughts on the contents of that doc.  It was written from
> this position: not all JDS users will be migrating from Windoze.  The
> JDS team have a LOT of CDE users to keep happy too...
>
> Launch -> Applications -> Accessories: I would like to see a simple
> standalone Roladex-like program for maintaining contacts (like CDE's
> sdtname).  A standalone contact manager is desirable because not everyone
> wants the overhead of using Evolution.  IF JDS does already have this
> funcitonality, its visibility needs to be raised!  :-)
>   

It would be really cool if there was a way to manage a central contact
database that could be used by mozilla/thunderbird and by Evolution. 
(Central the user, not necessarily a big RDBMS somewhere.)

One could imagine then developing little applications which could use
this database, e.g. to import into OOo mail merges and such.

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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
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