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

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 10/11/10 21:01, Julien Puydt wrote:
> 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...

Is this a problem for search_uri?  You just show the contact who has 
this URI (no matter how many URIs he has).

> (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?

Let's choose always the first.

> 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!

So who writes the get_uri function?  This would allow to advance/finish 
Grigory's implementation.

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Eugen