On Tuesday 19 February 2008 00:05:14 Charles philip Chan wrote:
Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@hashkedim.com>
writes:
Unless I have overlooked it, Kaddressbook (although it can store telephone numbers) is not capable of using them to dial a telephone. Surely there is another address-book utility that can do that. Can anyone recommend one?
Yes, it can. However, you will need to compile something like
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/apps/sound/misc/dtmf-dial-0.2.tar.gz
(unfortunately, no SUSE 10.3 packages) and set it up in the phone "script hook" in the "Settings"-> "Configure KAddresbook"-> "General". Alternatively, install Jpilot and uses its modified copy of dtmf-dial (jpilot-dial).
Charles
Thanks for these suggestions, which (especially the first one, about dtfm-dial) seem to me a logical and elegant way to proceed. I've d/l and extracted the dtfm-dial tar ball, and would like to install it. I have two problems with this: 1) The extracted files do not include a make file, only a file called "makefile", which I do not know what to do with. I've written to the developer, but the address he gives is from 1998, and who knows where he is today. I am mainly surprised that my message to him has not yet bounced. 2) More to the point, the script hook in Kaddressbook seems already to be occupied by one related to telephone: "ant-phone -e %N". I am assuming that this means that my dialing from the addressbook was never a problem, that ant-phone knows how to dial, and that my concern was misplaced. So I have installed ant-phone. However, if there is a way to get Kaddressbook to actually make use of the hook, I have not been able to see it. Clicking on the number to be dialed does nothing. What is the secret word that will get some action? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org