Re: [Fwd: [Announce] Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project (oFono)]

[Nils Faerber <nils faerber kernelconcepts de>]

Ross Burton schrieb:
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:56 +0300, Aki Niemi wrote:
>> ti, 2009-05-12 kello 17:55 +0200, ext Nils Faerber kirjoitti:
>>> But as an application developer I would like to be able to query the
>>> telephony stack for available call sinks and then either automatically
>>> choose the most appropiate one or give the user the choice (think of
>>> GSM, SIP, Skype, XMPP-VoIP, etc.). I think this is something that FSO
>>> has provisioning for. 
>> If that's the sort of thing you're looking for, then I'd suggest looking
>> into Telepathy. There is no reason that Telepathy couldn't also
>> integrate with oFono in the future.
> Agreed.  If FSO has plans to support all methods of voice communicating,
> then it is re-inventing the wheel because telepathy has this already.  I
> can't see a reason why there can't be a FSO or oFono based connection
> manager in Telepathy responsible for setting up GSM calls.

If this is the intention, then it is good. But this was not clear from
the arch-diagram where e.g. the CS-Call is directly connected to the
Call-UI (UI not framework) and several other items are directly
connected to direct UI components too. And also Marcel made the
impression in his IRC explanation of oFono that UI application should
directly talk to oFono. In this case I would see oFono as a limitation.

If integrated into an application framework, like Telepathy plus things
like connman for connection management, an event framework (which AFAIK
does not yet exist), etc., it makes perfect sense.

> Ross
Cheers
  nils faerber

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