[opensuse] Kaddressbook
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? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Op Monday 18 February 2008 22:40:43 schreef Stan Goodman:
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?
twinkle (http://twinklephone.com/) uses kaddressbook I believe for calling. It is part of the openSUSE distribution. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 18 February 2008 23:46:22 Richard Bos wrote:
Op Monday 18 February 2008 22:40:43 schreef Stan Goodman:
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?
twinkle (http://twinklephone.com/) uses kaddressbook I believe for calling. It is part of the openSUSE distribution.
Twinkle is a SIP application. Is it really possible that no users of SuSE, or even of Linux, have thought to have the addressbook dial the telephone? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Stan Goodman wrote:
On Monday 18 February 2008 23:46:22 Richard Bos wrote:
Op Monday 18 February 2008 22:40:43 schreef Stan Goodman:
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?
twinkle (http://twinklephone.com/) uses kaddressbook I believe for calling. It is part of the openSUSE distribution.
Twinkle is a SIP application.
Is it really possible that no users of SuSE, or even of Linux, have thought to have the addressbook dial the telephone?
I have only seen one address book that had that capability. It was the one that came with IBM (originally Footprint) Works in Warp 4. I could uses to use it as a dialer and even bought a cheap used 1200 bps modem with a large speaker just for that purpose. It could even track call times. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 00:35:07 James Knott wrote:
Stan Goodman wrote:
On Monday 18 February 2008 23:46:22 Richard Bos wrote:
Op Monday 18 February 2008 22:40:43 schreef Stan Goodman:
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?
twinkle (http://twinklephone.com/) uses kaddressbook I believe for calling. It is part of the openSUSE distribution.
Twinkle is a SIP application.
Is it really possible that no users of SuSE, or even of Linux, have thought to have the addressbook dial the telephone?
I have only seen one address book that had that capability. It was the one that came with IBM (originally Footprint) Works in Warp 4. I could uses to use it as a dialer and even bought a cheap used 1200 bps modem with a large speaker just for that purpose. It could even track call times.
No, Footprint was the little suite of word processor, database, chart program, etc that I barely used. The PIM was originally "Arcadia Workplace Companion". Then IBM bundled the two together, called "IBM Works", into OS/2 v2.1; The "Warp" name was given only to OS/2 v3.0 and further. I'm certain of the names of the two programs because I bought them individually for OS/2 v2.0, before the bundling took place, and I still have the very well written documentation that came with them. But I guess the IBM Works PIM is my model -- I never used much of it except the address book. But it seems so natural to use the telephone number, which are already sitting there in a nice database, to dial the phone. I'm spoiled. But the Arcadia PIM was not the only address book that dialled the telephone. Even further back, in the DOS era, probably DOS v3.0, Borland had an address book called Sidekick that did that; it was one of the first programs that really made a computer a necessity -- along with Visicalc. There are some Java address books, and some Java telephone dialers. Maybe if I look around enough I can find something by a developer that had an "Aha" moment and combined the two. It's so obvious. I think the reason there is no such thing in Linux is the "enterprise" mindset. -
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Oooooh? I never thought of that. I'll look into that tomorrow. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Oooooh? I never thought of that. I'll look into that tomorrow.
There's no address book there. That line is something that appears at the bottom of all my email. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 18 February 2008 05:17:06 pm Stan Goodman wrote:
On Monday 18 February 2008 23:46:22 Richard Bos wrote:
Op Monday 18 February 2008 22:40:43 schreef Stan Goodman:
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?
twinkle (http://twinklephone.com/) uses kaddressbook I believe for calling. It is part of the openSUSE distribution.
Twinkle is a SIP application.
Is it really possible that no users of SuSE, or even of Linux, have thought to have the addressbook dial the telephone?
-- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel
Even then it can call numbers in kaddressbook according to their homepage, "Interface to KAddressBook: dial phone numbers from your address book". So in a why it is what you asked for, may not be what you wanted though.
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 00:40:42 Adam Jimerson wrote:
On Monday 18 February 2008 05:17:06 pm Stan Goodman wrote:
On Monday 18 February 2008 23:46:22 Richard Bos wrote:
Op Monday 18 February 2008 22:40:43 schreef Stan Goodman:
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?
twinkle (http://twinklephone.com/) uses kaddressbook I believe for calling. It is part of the openSUSE distribution.
Twinkle is a SIP application.
Is it really possible that no users of SuSE, or even of Linux, have thought to have the addressbook dial the telephone?
-- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel
Even then it can call numbers in kaddressbook according to their homepage, "Interface to KAddressBook: dial phone numbers from your address book". So in a why it is what you asked for, may not be what you wanted though.
If it knows how to put telephone numbers into a PSTN telephone line rather than into a SIP phone or adaptor (and I don't see why it shouldn't), maybe it deserves a look. That would be a very effective solution. Thanks. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 00:05:14 Charles philip Chan wrote:
Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@hashkedim.com>
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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
* Stan Goodman (stan.goodman@hashkedim.com) [20080219 22:37]:
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:
There's a much easier way :) Head over to http://http://software.opensuse.org/search, enter dtmf-dial and click search and you'll be presented packages to download or install. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 22 February 2008 15:46:06 Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Stan Goodman (stan.goodman@hashkedim.com) [20080219 22:37]:
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:
There's a much easier way :) Head over to http://http://software.opensuse.org/search, enter dtmf-dial and click search and you'll be presented packages to download or install.
Philipp
Yes, I've found it. Thank you. But it turns out that KAddressbook already knows about "ant-phone", so I have installed that app, making dtmf-dial redundant. That leaves me with the question: Now that KAddress presumably knows how to reach the modem and dial it, how am I to tell KAddressbook which number I want dialed? The Home number, Work, Fax, Cellular, ....? I see nothing to click on, or otherwise to stimulate, tol make it do this trick. No, it is not in the friendly "documentation" (quotes intentional). I have, by the way, also asked this question on the KDE user list; evidently nobody there knows either. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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