Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] dbus "Answer"

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

Le mercredi 11 mars 2009 à 23:58 -0400, Jon Pounder a écrit :
> Hello list,
> 
> Forgive me if this has already been discussed in the past. I ran across 
> the dbus bindings tonight in the python scripts and they seem to do what 
> I want except for being missing a facility to use dbus to answer an 
> incoming call rather than just originate calls via the call method. (and 
> I guess now thinking about it for more than 5seconds I need a hangup 
> method as well)
> 
> For an audio only call I don't actually need the ekiga window showing at 
> all since its a kiosk like application where all you see is the browser. 
> I could either use one of the JS dbus bindings to talk to ekiga or I 
> could just make a firefox handler for sip: and parse out numbers, answer 
> or hangup myself and act according in any language that supports dbus.
> 
> So my question is, is this a work in progress anywhere I am missing 
> right now - I would hate to spend the time if its a duplication of effort ?

It is not a duplication effort. Our DBUS system needs some love,
especially in Ekiga 3.00.

> It seems straightforward enough to implement the new methods myself, but 
> tonight is really the first time I have looked at the ekiga source or 
> dbus internals, although I have been a c programmer for nearly 20 yrs. 
> Anyone have any tips before I dive in ?


Snark ? (in CC).

> 
> ps the bug about interface bindings that is already noted in the faq is 
> also bothersome to me since it affects vpn connections as well and likes 
> to bind to those even when unwanted. If I get the first thing done I 
> might have time to work on that as well, but initially what would seem 
> to be helpful would be a blacklist of interfaces never to bind to, ie 
> tun0, tap1, type of thing etc.

I'll think to it for 3.4.
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