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Jacob

Member

Registered: 2005-03-19

Posts: 52

dialer program for KDE

I'm looking for a good program which will allow me to click on a phone # link in my address book, and dial it on my behalf.

In KAddressBook, under the settings there is a line which can hand off the dial function to a 3rd party program. 

I did some research and found there are a few dialer programs for Linux, like:  wvdial, eznet, chat, pon, and ecu to name a few.

Has anyone used any of these in conjunction with KAddressBook?  Or is there is a better way/program?

Thanks,

Jacob

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: dialer program for KDE

Check out kppp (it's in kdenetwork).  I was using it to dial when I was using KDE. I don't know how it would work with KAddressBook but, as it's a KDE app, I guess that they would work well together.

Jacob

Member

Registered: 2005-03-19

Posts: 52

Re: dialer program for KDE

Check out kppp (it's in kdenetwork).  I was using it to dial when I was using KDE. I don't know how it would work with KAddressBook but, as it's a KDE app, I guess that they would work well together.

Unfortunately, kppp is a front-end for pppd, which allows users to have lists of ISP's phone numbers.  If you try to call kppp from the command-line or  from kaddressbook, it gets confused.  It's not ment to handle such things.

Does anyone else have any info regarding phone # dialing from the command-line in Linux?

Jacob