Re: [Ekiga-list] Web-browser association with sip: links and Ekiga (Windows 7)

[Genghis Khan <genghiskhan gmx ca>]

There is a bug.

When using the argument --call while a process of Ekiga is already
running on Windows a message will pop up 'Ekiga is running'.


On Fri, 25 May 2012 11:13:38 +0300
Genghis Khan <genghiskhan gmx ca> wrote:

> Someone on the IRC chat room has made a great, yet obvious, suggestion
> to use Ekiga to open hyper-link sip: addresses.
> 
> But before I'm suggesting anything, this might be an issue with Ekiga
> itself (a bug) and not a feature that needs to be added, because sip:
> links do work on UNIX.
> 
> Using Ekiga to open sip: links from Web-browser on Windows.
> 
> Including the command ekiga --call or ekiga -c in the Windows registry
> (or wherever it is needed in order to make web browsers to open sip:
> addresses with ekiga).
> 
> I'm not knowledgeable on Windows and so I do not know what is the
> character that is needed to be put after "C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Ekiga\ekiga.exe --call ???" to make it dynamic so (using a
> shortcut that will be selected in Firefox - a temporary solution).
> 
> I know that it is usually $1 in Linux.
>