Re: [Ekiga-list] Text display problem with Pidgin user

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

On 24/01/11 13:55, Jānis Rukšāns wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Dave Koelmeyer<davekoelmeyer me com>  wrote:
> > On 14/01/11 10:22 AM, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> > > Ekiga does not have such feature.  Please make a bug report and attach the
> > > image.  I think it is simple (feasible, does not need high programming
> > > skills) to program it, but it can take a bit of time.
> > >
> > > But I am not quite fond about it.  Injecting small packets in the network
> > > only to tell the other person that you are writing means network usage for
> > > not much information...
>
> Well, people seem to be expecting such notifications in IM software...
> and, like it or not, application/is-composing is the standard way of
> achieving it with SIP (see RFC 3994 [1]).
>
>
> > Done - bug report is here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640393
> >
> > Notification that the remote party is typing a text message is a
> > nice-to-have in an ideal world, but it's certainly not IMHO critical, and I
> > could happily use Ekiga without it. I'm not a developer, but if adapting
> > Ekiga to simply drop the is-composing code is the easiest way to resolve
> > this, then that would get a +1 from me :)
>
> I'd be happy to help with the code if someone showed me where to dig.

The code is in lib/engine/gui/gtk-frontend/chat-window.cpp.  Dialects, 
if you need them, are in lib/engine/gui/gtk-frontend, re-ask here if you 
need to understand them.  Use git master, not stable, please.

> Ekiga source code is pretty hard to understand for the uninitiated, if
> you ask me (lots of "framework" stuff hiding the real deal, which
> doesn't help at all if one's using websvn/gitweb and doesn't have a
> local copy to grep through).

Agreed...

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Eugen