Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] To the developers

[Craig Southeren <craigs postincrement com>]

Julien Puydt wrote:
> yannick a écrit :
> > IMHO, it should be like when you install firefox: it ask to be the
> > default software handling internet link (http://...), and it has
> > probably an option somewhere for this too. This let the user choose
> > which software will handle links for internet.
> > I would like EKiga behavior be the same on every platforms (i.e. linux
> > and windows): asking to be the default software handling sip:... URI and
> > having an option in preferences for that.
>
> Some random thoughts about it :
> (1) why not peek at how firefox does this ?
>
> (2) why not have a nice framework for that in ekiga, with a gconf 
> implementation and a dummy implementation, then try to find someone to 
> provide a win32/kde/whatever implementation?
>
> (3) do the win32 binaries run under wine? Wouldn't that be of interest 
> to the wine developpers to help it run under wine? Wouldn't they also be 
> able to help with point (2) ?

I've added code to the trunk revision of ptlib that implements this 
functionality for Windows.

Simply add the following code to the PProcess::Main descendant

PString urlTypes("sip\nh323\nsips\nh323s");
if (!PProcess::HostSystemURLHandlerInfo::RegisterTypes(urlTypes, false))
  PProcess::HostSystemURLHandlerInfo::RegisterTypes(urlTypes, true);

I've tested this on Vista with another OPAL application and it works 
just grand :)

If someone could implement the Linux/gnome version, we'd be done :)

In the future, please feel free to send any Windows issues to me or 
Robert as we do a lot of development on that platform

   Craig

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