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Subject:    AW: A new process approach to an Office suite
From:       "Schmidt, Frank-Andreas" <Frank-Andreas.Schmidt () sig ! siemens ! de>
Date:       2000-05-31 8:14:04
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I can´t resist to answer:
For me, this would be heaven.

Since over a year I´m using an analog fax-modem with hylafax to send and receive fax \
messages. If someone could provide a function similar to WinWord (send \
to...(fax,email etc..) I would be happy.

But don´t forget that it is not too simple to configure mgetty, faxgetty or \
whatelse_getty_you_use. In my opinion there are many users that have no ISDN-network \
or are connected to a fax host. So, there should be a support for analog lines within \
KDE. I think of a monitor for the serial connection, an automatic identification of \
modems, pre-defined profiles for connect strings etc. So, if anyone plans to \
implement the mail and fax functions one has to take into account that the average \
user has to overcome many configuration difficulties. At the moment it is not \
plug-and-play.

Perhaps this is not the forum to discuss these things. But since I´m not subscribed \
to any KDE-general topics I had to get rid of it right here.

beg your pardon

greetings, 
Frank




> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Waldo Bastian [SMTP:bastian@kde.org]
> Gesendet am:	Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2000 07:24
> An:	koffice@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
> Betreff:	Re: A new process approach to an Office suite
> 
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> 
> > > I've been working plenty with office suites.  What I find interesting is
> > that both email and word processing basically are the same thing,
> > processing text.  What I find also interesting is that most people
> > (those not associated with Linux ;-) ) are still printing out documents
> > to be placed in a fax machine which sends documents at 14.4 while email
> > can be sent at 14.4 or GREATER!!!  Now KOffice could leap the other
> > office suites is if it was able to convert each and every file under
> > KOffice which is "printed" into a graphic which can be sent via email.
> > You'd save me a lot of time.  Besides, with the forthcoming bandwidth
> > speed bumps, faxes will be passe.
> 
> Or send the document to the local fax-server which can send it out as a fax. 
> Every modem has FAX support these days anyway.
> 
> Something else:
> Often people want you to fax something which you need to sign and fax back.
> Wouldn't it be nice to be able to receive the fax with your fax-modem, sign 
> it electronically with your favourite image program and send it back via the 
> fax-server. No paper, no printer, no fax-machine needed.
> 
> Cheers,
> Waldo


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