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

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

Jon Pounder a écrit :
> 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 think there's a misunderstanding there : "Snark" is my nickname ;-)

> 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 ?

The DBUS code would need some love indeed -- and it shouldn't be 
difficult to bring up again. I have that old bug report if you want :
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338337

And I'll gladly help if you need directions.

Snark