Civeleme,
AMEN!!! Are you listening Mandrake?????? Some of our guru's have played
in Linux for an eternity; they know of what they speak. .. Pj
Civileme wrote:
>
> 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
>
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> BETA testing KDE2 and Konqueror
