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

[Jon Pounder <jon pounder com>]

Damien Sandras wrote:
> 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).
>   
cc gcc msvc etc.
I write mostly cross platform code meant for windows, linux and bsd.

I had a further look after writing this email and it looks like only a 
couple of lines of code are actually needed for each, but it seems like 
getting a build environment setup is going to take far longer than the 
code itself, but the wiki has a lot of details on it. So we'll see.  
Anyone else have any dbus wishlist methods I could add while I am 
working on it ?