[kdepim-users] Dialling from Kaddressbook

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Saturday 28 June 2008, Stan Goodman wrote:
> I want Kaddressbook to dial the telephone (not a SIPphone, and not to
> an ISP, but through an analog modem to an ordinary POTS phone line).
> Since this utility knows the numbers of all those to whom I dial
> routinely, it should be superfluous for me to punch buttons manually.
>
> The developer(s) of the program have not thought to give it a way to
> communicate with the modem, but they have provided a hook so that one
> can point it at an appropriate dialer. This is located at Settings >
> Configure Kaddressbook > General.
>
> I have installed wvdial and entered <wvdial %N> (w/o the angle
> brackets) in the Phone field, guessing that the model provided in
> that field when I installed Kaddressbook is valid for wvdial. (That
> "dialer" did  not, in fact know how to dial, but only to emit
> dialling tones to holler through the handset, which is a primitive
> solution). Clicking on a telephone number does nothing at all, so
> clearly what I have done is wrong and/or insufficient.

I have just written a simple test-script and entered it as hook for 
phone numbers. The test-script simply added the number given to it to 
some file. Each time I clicked on a telephone number in KAddressBook a 
number was added to the file. So at least for me clicking on a 
telephone number has the desired effect.

According to the man page of wvdial calling wvdial with a phone number 
as command line argument does not work. But you can call wvdial with a 
certain Dialer section name from your wvdial.conf. Maybe you can name 
the Dialer sections like the corresponding phone numbers. Then it 
should work. For more information read 'man wvdial'.


Regards,
Ingo
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