[libreoffice-users] Re: Thunderbird Address Book as Data Source

On 01/20/2013 04:03 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> Le 20/01/13 01:06, NoOp a écrit :
>
> Hi NoOp,
>
> > I see; not trying to not shooting the messenger - thanks Alex ;-)
> >
> > So will this be yet another 'improvement feature' like removing the text
> > boundaries[1] in Writer? Should we toss all of our pre-mork .odb's?
>
> To be honest, I don't know, as I haven't really played around with it in
> a "before" and "after" situation. On Mac, one couldn't access
> Thunderbird addressbooks anyway prior to LO4, so at least for that OS,
> there's been an improvement ;-)
>
> From what I understand, the mork driver is a work in progress...in other
> words, basic functionality works for one address book, things like
> lists, other address books, etc, do not yet work, and the table will
> remain read-only (as was the case with the mozab driver), in order to
> avoid potentially nasty conflicts of write operations when having the
> address book table open in TB and LO at the same time...
>
> Alex


<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51004>
[replace mozilla address book parser with a new implementation that
doesn't link to mozilla libraries]

They've certainly accomplished the "doesn't link to mozilla libraries"
part; not only can you not access your other Thunderbird addressbooks,
but you can no longer access *any* other Mozilla (SeaMonkey for example)
addressbooks. If you rename the ~/.thunderbid directory, you get a "The
file $finame$ could not be loaded." That also applies to any previous
.odb's with non-Thunderbird addressbooks (links are all that the .odb uses).

Found this:
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57285>
[Address Book Data Source Wizard lists "Mac OS X address book" on Linux]
which seems to shed some light on the issue (sdbc:address:mozilla: etc).





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