[kdepim-users] Dialling from Kaddressbook

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 29 June 2008, Stan Goodman wrote:
> At 17:41:46 on Sunday Sunday 29 June 2008, Robin Atwood
> <robin at binro.org>
>
> wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 Jun 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.
> >
> > Many moons ago I wrote an application called Kall, which you can
> > find at http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Kall?content=14447. It
> > still works with KDE 3.5.9 because I just used it to call the bank!
>
> MANY THANKS for telling me this.
>
> It is a welcome shock to realize that somebody actually saw that the
> whole difference between Kaddressbook and a 1930s Rolodex is that the
> former is capable, given the right encouragement, of dialing numbers
> directly, rather than utilizing the human index finger. And your
> website says that you wrote Kall specifically for Kaddressbook!!! 
> And evidently nobody else has heard of this essential utility, which
> magnifies the value of Kaddressbook many fold.

http://kde.markmail.org/message/32cxqs42vzogcxjh

Unfortunately, for some reason adding kall to kde-pim never happened.


> Since it seems to be the only such purpose-designed program on the
> planet, one would think that the openSuSE crew would think to make it
> available as an RPM, but no. Or that KDE would mention it in the
> Kaddressbook "documentation"  =;-)8.  The mind boggles.

There are literally thousands of applications listed at kde-apps. So 
it's not really that surprising that kall was overlooked. BTW, just 
like KDE openSUSE is a community project, i.e. you can become a member 
of openSUSE and make sure kall gets included in the next version.


Regards,
Ingo
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