[Ekiga-list] Some new queries

[Bret Busby <bret busby net>]

Hello.

After an absence for a while, I have installed UbuntuMATE 15.10 on a 
couple of computers here, and have now installed ekiga on one of them, 
on which computer, I had got skype working, before microsoft sabotaged 
skype and stopped access for skype 2.2 .

On this computer, the version of ekiga that I have installed, is 4.0.1 , 
and so, I am waiting to find whether I can get this version working to 
make videocalls.

I note that, in searching for people, using the ekiga.net directory, the 
only information shown, for people found (and, from memory, it is the 
only information that can be entered about the person, when setting up 
an ekiga account), is the person's name as entered (I did find a few 
Fred Flintstone's, so I assume that some people are using aliases for 
their names), and, the sip address.

I saw on the ekiga web site (the .org one), information that a 
super-dooper new version of ekiga is being developed; version 5, as 
mentioned at http://ekiga.org/news/2015-03-08/ekiga-5.0-next-big-thing .

That web page does not (I believe) include reference to the prospect of 
additional personal information being included and retrieved, so, my 
first question is thus; do the plans for ekiga v5, include the prosepct 
of expanded personal information - user profiles - so as to include 
useful information such as location - locality and state/province and 
country, with timezone; eg UTC+xxxx (here in Western Australia, for 
example, we are UTC+0800), and preferred language for communication?

These can be useful items of information, for determining whether to try 
to contact an unknown person, and, if a user decides it is worthwhile to 
try to contact an unknown person, what the time difference is likely to 
be, and therefore, a likely reasonable time to try to contact the other 
person. The timezones can also be useful, for when a user forgets the 
time differences for people with whom the user havs previously been in 
contact.

This kind of nformation, was part of the information that was available 
to be included (not required to be included, but, could be included, if 
a user was willing), and, thence, could be retrieved in examining a 
person's prifile, in the usable version of skype; v2.2, before microsoft 
sabotaged skype.

I believe that skype 2.2 also included, in the personal profiles, 
provision for such information as age and birthdays, etc.

Also, in noting that ekiga is available for Linux, and "NetBSD, OpenBSD, 
OpenSolaris and other Unix-like systems.", and, for MS Windows, does 
ekiga run on tablet PC's, including Windows Tablets, like the MS Surface 
ones, and, on android tablet PC's? I understand that the android OS is 
said to be Linux-based.

Thank you in anticipation.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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  written by Douglas Adams,
  published by Pan Books, 1992
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