Dear Sinisa!
I will Cc: this to the developers list so that all of this "BAD" people
know what you think!
On 29-Aug-2001 Sinisa Milivojevic wrote:
>
>> The internal fax-facility has been removed from LyX so you need an
>> external program (Frontend) to the faxpackage you've installed to be
>> able to fax your stuff with some confort. I use KSendFax for this as
>> it uses the same addressbook format as the old implementation in LyX
>> (which was both programmed by myself) if you don't have KDE installed
>> then you can also try to compile/install xsendfax a Fax-Frontend identicall
>> to the one included in LyX with the xforms library. Search it on ftp.sad.it.
>>
>> If you have such a "Frontend" the you can go into Edit->Preferences->Converters
>> and input a converter for the "Fax-Converter".
>>
>> From: Postscript
>> To: Fax
>> Converter: ksendfax $$i
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Jürgen
>
>
> No, it does not.
>
> SuSE 7.2 does not have ksendfax, nor does RedHat 7.*.
>
> Why have you done the above ??
>
> It worked perfectly !!
>
> Now, I have to loose 3 hours of my work to find sources, build,
> install , tweak etc ... I do not have those 3 hours. I work 12 hours
> per day already.
Nonsense there are RPM packages for RedHat and I guess you can install
them also for SuSE and it takes you exactly 10secs to install it!
> This way you will loose all users, one by one.
You mean all our users who used the OLD fax facility and who are not
dynamic enough to spend 10secs to install a program from a RPM package!
> I recommended LyX for invoicing and faxing to several folks. They all
> upgraded ( for their own reasons) and ask me what to do. They are
> lawyers etc, and they can't build, tweak etc. I told them : Switch to
> StarOffice.
I recommend OpenOffice it is REALLY feature complete VERY fast, has a
wonderful print engine, just it segfaults from time to time and to input
some text you need quite some time as the screen/redraw seems a bit slow.
> So, what should we do ??
You gave yourself an answer above didn't you!
> If we in MySQL would do such nonsense as you do with LyX, we would be
> without users.
>
> What you could do 5 years ago with MySQL, you can do today. Are there
> new and better ways today ?? Yes, but those new features do not kill
> old features. None.
Well I have a big smile now on my face, we're using MySQL and it seems
it gets slower and slower at every release, especially joins with range
values takes forever to complete on a medium/large sized database, I don't
really call this "good behavior", but We probably see that from a different
perspective that you "REALLY BRAVE" mysql developers!
> You, LyX developers, are all very irresponsible people, and if you
> continue that way, LyX will have not much of the future, although it
> is a best word processor around.
It's no word processor it's a "document" processor, but thanks for the
compliment!
> If you make a single change in some other feature, like HTML
> generation, that would require another 3 hours of my work, I will
> erase LyX.
>
> So, what should I do ??
You gave yourself an answer already for this question didn't you!
How are people called who do personal emails like this one to OpenSource
developers, ..., hmm, ..., let me think, ..., ah I got it, I think the
right term I heard on the net was "Lamers" isn't it? There are people
who terminated projects because of people like you, but you know, I'm
just to happy with my life to let me touch by such "overbearingness"!
Have a nice day,
Jürgen
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