Re: [Ekiga-list] Wishlist?...

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mercredi 24 janvier 2007 �1:25 +0000, A. James Lewis a �it :
> There's 2 things that I really wish ekiga could do... so I wonder if the
> beta's have any nice new features you guys can tell me about... or if
> not, here's a couple of suggestions...
> 
> 1, It seems like it'd be really nice to have a conference facility,
> where you could recieve multiple calls and conference them together, or
> conversely, make multiple calls and like them together... 
> If it was really clever you could leave a conference without closing it,
> and/or make/recieve another call and then rejoin a running conference.
> 

Given the current upstream of most people, I do not consider this as
viable with Open Source codecs. Most people do not have enough bandwidth
to upload audio and video to several participants.

>From my point of view, it is a service SIP providers should provide, it
is a server-side thing, not a client thing.

> 2, Much simpler, seemingly...   It'd be REALLY nice to have a way to
> quickly switch audio devices, preferably independently for input and
> output... mabe have configuratble profiles?... this would be so that you
> could switch between speaker and headset while in call... or keep the
> headset on, and just allow somone else to listen in,... whichever... 

That's planned, but is not high priority in the TODO list...
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