Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Ekiga address book searching by URI

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

Le 10/11/2010 19:24, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
> Julien, any idea?

Yes. At one point we discussed that with Damien.

The naive way to do that is to add a get_uri method here and there, so 
you just loop, ask for the uri, and when you find a matching one : ask 
the name! It's so naive it won't work :
(1) why would every contact have a single uri? It could have zero, or 
much more. For a contact in your typical addressbook, you certainly have 
several mails, perhaps an MSN, a SIP and a skype...
(2) why would you find a single name? I have sometimes two contacts 
which share the same phone number... because they happen to live 
together ; which one should be shown? So let's not search for a name but 
for a list of names : how do we choose?

I have ideas for a less naïve way which would get around (1) ; but have 
little clue how to decide on which name in (2).

Let's discuss!

Snark