Replacement for KFax

David Faure faure at kde.org
Wed Aug 10 01:14:05 BST 2005


On Tuesday 09 August 2005 14:27, Wilfried Huss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know this is a little late for KDE 3.5, but would it be ok to remove
> KFax. KViewShell (also in the kdegraphics module) has now the
> ability to open FAX-files, and I think it would be a good replacement.
> 
> KFax is probably unmaintained and it is quite crashprone.
> It also has a horrible user interface.
> 
> If kfax is removed, I could create a wrapper executable around kviewshell, so
> for the users not much would change. KViewShell doesn't support the
> same command line options as KFax, but I doubt many people use them.

How do I use kviewshell to open a fax file? It wants a "part" as argument,
which one is that?

(This also means: if this works, the wrapper executable is certainly necessary)

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Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).





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