Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Contacts, groups and renaming : the future in questions

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

Damien Sandras a écrit :
> What about the API proposal you have in mind ?
> (a basic draft about the various classes that will be involved is
> enough).

I had in mind something very very basic for the elementary chunks :
std::list<std::string> get_info (const std::string key) const;
(and of course Ekiga::LiveObject)

The real work would be for the merging object, with the following 
merging algorithms :
- return the first answer ;
- return the union list of the answers (with duplicates are removed).

The first one could be used to implement the following method of the 
merging object (Ekiga::Person?) :
const std::string get_name () const;
and the second to implement :
const std::list<std::string> get_groups () const;

That should be pretty easy to do and would already give the merging and 
updating behaviour (that is : you see the merged information, and it is 
updated live).

It's still not good enough if you want to add some information (ie: a 
name which would hide the underlying name, new groups), but that's a start.

My main worry is the new gui.

Snark