Re: [Gnumed-devel] talkback client

[Sebastian Hilbert]

> At 8:01 AM +1000 3/30/05, Ian Haywood wrote:
> >P.S. does anyone have any comment on using the user's mailreader to 
> >send talkbacks?
> 
> Does this mean "trigger" whatever mailreader is designated in the 
> operating system, to launch that app (if it is not already running) 
> and to create a new mail message inputting automatically the "to" 
> address, the body of the message and possibly the subject line, as 
> well?
> 
> The idea being that, if feasible, this method would enable Tim 
> Churches's proposal, that users be able to visually identify, before 
> sending, the nature and extent of any confidential data that would be 
> transmitted?
> 
As alaways there is more than one way to do this. Personally (as a user) I
would like my mail client fired up or at least be asked to do this somehow.

I have no idea what it takes to make this work across platforms. But a
talkback client is GNUmed agnostic. It should be smart. What I wnat to say
is that it is a good project. We should let the user decide. Sane defaults
should be provided. 

Maybe there is even a way for the talkback client to test what is available.
A simple wxpython gui could then provide those options to the user.

Are there any other sane talkback clients out there ?
If it turns out there is a need for a well designed talkback client we
should put a page in the Wiki to spell out what we want and how it could be
done. This makes it easy for any programmer to look at the proposed specs
and build one. All projects would benefit from it.

Jim, could you create a stub and mail me the Wiki page. I would than start
adding content.

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