Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Handling ordinary phone numbers ( Yet Another Approach)

[thomas schorpp <thomas schorpp googlemail com>]

Alec Leamas schrieb:
> Trying to explain this once again, hopefully better. Questions in the 
> end...
>
> The problem I try  to solve is that users typically stores telephone 
> numbers, often formatted and without countrycode, whereas Ekiga today 
> requires a complete URL to place even an ordinary PSTN call. 

No it doesn't. This is SIP-providers' switches business. 
A good VoIP/PSTN-provider with a fine designed switch does not require +<countrycode>... 
for local country #s.
With sipgate.de e.g. You dial WYSIWYG on Ekiga's dialpad, care about @sipgate.de only, 
press green and off you go.

> This makes 
> the basic process to call a PSTN number hard, user has to manually 
> convert e. g., '070-543 22 11' to sip:+46705432211 sip diamondcard com 

The further spreading of electronic notepads and mobiles will lead to such old paper form 
notation habits vanish soon since the softwares do not support it either, "-" and " " may 
still even crash many webforms.

> So: first question: Would this overall be a Good Thing, something that 
> makes Ekiga more usable, and thus worth some effort?

No. At all love to ergonomics, users should adapt their habits to new techs a little 
and it is not our job to "fix" some  Providers uncool switches.

y
tom