Avi wrote: > Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > > > It's not a bug, it's the way Canonical add the Office suite to > > Ubuntu. It's been going on for years with Open Office and now > > they've done the same with LO... > > If you use Evolution then OO (or LO I presume, I uninstall > > Evolution because I never use it) will use the Evolution > > Addressbook but not anything else. > > If you uninstall the Canonical-supplied Office suite and install > > direct from OO ot LO then the TBird addressbook can be used as a > > data source. > > > > That *is* a bug, but I can't find it filed anywhere. The Launchpad bug > reports is the place to file this - the Ubuntu LO packages are likely > to not be subscribed to this list. > >
Aha! 93546: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/93546 A brief scan of the discussion infers the problem is in Mozilla's codebase, but it looks like it's not the simple fix you think it is. I am sure all involved would be glad to be proven otherwise, though. -- Avi -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/