From koffice Wed May 31 11:04:02 2000 From: Marko Samastur Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:04:02 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: AW: A new process approach to an Office suite X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=95977104207507 "Schmidt, Frank-Andreas" wrote: > > I canīt resist to answer: > For me, this would be heaven. > > Since over a year Iīm 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 donīt 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. Right, so what would actually happen, is many more people sending graphics in email which is absolutely awful. It might not matter to you, if you have luxury of broadband internet access at home or at work, but for those of us, who can't afford such a luxury (for whatever reason), it's a nightmare. Best regards, Marko