I have noticed a number of office-style aplications are offering the SEND instruction from desktop icons, jpg files and such. This is not, unfortunately a practice limited to windows though there one can SEND a Microsoft Word file to a floppy as well as email out. The usual effect of this send instruction is an attachment to email or direct transmission of a file. IF a similar instruction is implemented on Mandrake for any of the supported desktops, I would suggest a default format conversion to *.rtf, SYLK, DIF, etc, depending on the file type, with possible options offered to the user to change the transmission format. Why? Every day I have to deal with messages sent in WordPerfect format without even so much as an extension to hint on type--and I have to deal with Word 95 Word 97 and Word 2000, and I have to set up OUR systems to open these furschlugginer attachments from email with a SINGLE CLICK. I train users here to be more courteous, but still there are those who are so dyed-in-the-wool Microsoft fans that they take their work to their home computers.... And make floppies in formats that the folks they are supposed to be supporting cannot read (version format conflict). Linux should be about interoperability, so if we are to have the Brain-Dead Send instruction, at least let it default to something someone on the other end can probably open without buying new software. Civileme -- BETA testing KDE2 and Konqueror
