Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Code in lib/engine/components/opal/

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

On 28/01/13 18:31, Julien Puydt wrote:
> Le 28/01/2013 18:12, Eugen Dedu a Ãcrit :
> > I cannot say anything on all this, except: can we use more meaningful
> > words than bank and dialect? Is bank a registrar? For me, bank is for
> > money. What is a dialect (a version of a spoken language?)?
>
> A bank is where accounts are kept.
>
> A dialect is a way to send/receive message.
>
> I found Ekiga::Bank would be better than Ekiga::AccountLister, and
> Ekiga::Dialect better than Ekiga::SomeWayToSendAMessage.

I have a small preference for AccountList.

Instead of dialect, couldn't we use Chat or IM?

> > You propose PresentityDecorator and ContactDecorator? What do these
> > words mean? Decorator is for GUI things, is that the case?
>
> No, decorator is the name of a well-known design pattern ; it's a way to
> add features to objects : it can be used for gui, but it's more general.
>
> Those abstract classes are something which is already in ekiga ; it's
> just that instead of making the Opal::Sip::EndPoint an implementation of
> those classes, I propose to make Opal::Bank an implementation of those
> classes.

Ok.

> > I would also like to change roster (who in this list knows what it
> > means?) to local contacts or something like this. No software I know
> > uses the word "roster".
>
> Well :
>
> 1) roster is a correct english word to describe a list of
> people/contacts : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roster
>
> 2) roster is the name of a contact list in the jabber protocol, see
> http://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc6121.html
>
> 3) a roster doesn't have to be local ; in fact we have a local-roster
> which is used for the opal part of ekiga, but the loudmouth plugin
> provides rosters which are kept on-server.

Roster is indeed an English word, but a software should use classical 
names, commonly used in software.  Roster is used only in XMPP, in all 
other software is Contact list, Addressbook or something like that.  The 
main target of ekiga is not XMPP, but SIP/H.323.

Apart XMPP, is there any software which uses the word roster?  Twinkle, 
Linphone, thunderbird use addressbook.  gmail uses chat list.

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Eugen