Bug#148790: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#148790: efax and hylafax

[Per Olofsson]

Sven Hoexter:
> with LyX 1.4.2 the configure script has been rewritten in Python.
> With this script it's possible to detect and use kdeprintfax or ksendfax.
> 
> So I installed efax to take a look at it. The problem I see with efax and
> possibly hylafax aswell is that you need to give it the receivers fax number
> as a commandline parameter. As far as I can tell it's ATM not possible to
> enter the number within LyX so it's impossible to send a fax directly from
> LyX with efax.
> 
> Options I can see ATM:
> a) Downgrade this bug to wishlist -> fwd to upstream
> b) Write and supply kind of a wrapper script with the LyX Debian package
> which asks for the fax number and sends the fax.

Shouldn't this kind of thing be integrated into the printing dialog or
something? Maybe handled by kdeprint or whatever subsystem is used?
Perhaps it already is?

> Sounds like a candidate for Tcl/Tk but I don't know how the fax
> stuffs works and I've no test enviroment I could use to try it out.

Please don't use Tcl/Tk. I suggest Python/Qt (since LyX already uses
Python).

-- 
Pelle