Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] [Fwd: Re: URL bugs?]

[Miguel Rodríguez <Miguel Rodriguez det uvigo es>]

El lun, 02-06-2003 a las 10:48, Damien Sandras escribió:
> Well,
> 
> As I'm not sure I understand completely the full meaning of "In
> my opinion GM should write this urls for you 95% of the time", here is a
> simple request:
> - Imagine the user has to call host.com with port 1740.
> - What should he do? What is GnomeMeeting's role here?
> 
I think writting host.com should be enough if 1740 is the standard port
(if not host.com:1740). As h323:// would be the most common prefix, GM
should try that itself (in the same way the web brosers add the http://,
http://www. or even ftp:// if the host name starts with ftp.

> (writing the 'h323:@host.com:1740' URL after having read the
> documentation and clicking on connect is a right answer, but that's what
> I call being counter-intuitive).
> 
> Le lun 02/06/2003 à 10:40, Miguel Rodríguez a écrit :
> > El lun, 02-06-2003 a las 10:27, Christian Strauf escribió:
> > > Hi Damien!
> > > 
> > > > Are we going back to callto: as default instead of h323: ?
> > > >  
> > > > There is an RFC about h323:, but it looks indeed counter-intuitive...
> > > I would stick with the RFC because I tend to agree with Miguel's arguments.
> > > This URL's definition has to be precise. Apart from that I really can't see why
> > > the h323-URL definition is counter intuitive -- it's quite clear what to put in
> > > which place. And to be honest: addressing a snail mail letter is more difficult
> > > than using the h323-URL -- you need to write the name, the street, the
> > > apartment-#, the postcode, the city and the national code onto a letter; and
> > > all in the right order, and twice, the recipient and the source! Giving 3 or 4
> > > examples in the documentation should be completely sufficient to understand,
> > > how to use the h323:-notation.
> > 
> > 99% agree. Although examples in the documentation can be helpful, I
> > still think writing urls by hand is a kind of "very advanced usage". In
> > my opinion GM should write this urls for you 95% of the time, so most
> > users wouldn't need to bother about this.
> > 
> > BTW, a useful feature would be a kind of signature generator or
> > something like that, that based on your registration settings would
> > generate a valid h323 url for you.
> > > 
> > > Just my 2-€-Cents.
> > > Christian
> > 
> > Le lun 02/06/2003 à 10:24, GnomeMeeting master a écrit :
> > 
> > > Well, I agree with you, but I don't understand if you answered to my
> > > question or not...
> > 
> > Well, Christian managed to express myself (wow, what a sentence) much better than i did ;).
> > 
> > > PS: no coffee here yet either ;)
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