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fcrochik 2010-06-14 16:20
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by arkanoid (Post 714697)
Tried the app, it turned out that all pictures it shows are attributed to wrong contacts when clicked..
You are the second person to report this issue but I haven't had any luck trying to reproduce it. I would appreciate if you could answer the following questions:

When you click on the image do you get the same image with the contact information or do you get the right image then? do you ever get the right image? what if you click on a contact while on the "contacts" mode does it show the right image then?

Reffyyyy 2010-06-14 16:35
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
I can also confirm almost all the pictures are assigned to the wrong person. I never get the right image no matter what I try.

Patola 2010-06-14 16:38
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by fcrochik (Post 714351)
You read my mind! I am working on that right now...

I want to try to play the sound instead of changing it on the fly... Do you know if anybody has tried it? You could just assign a "mute" sound to the profile and let my application handle the sound by itself... sounds to me like a better option but I haven't tried it
As for as I know, the problem with this approach is that then you have to do the whole housekeeping with the sound - stop it if the phone hangs or if the person picks up, see if the silence profile is on and not play it, and such. Even though I think the workaround used in the python script I referred to is far from the ideal - temporarily override the location for the ringtone file - it's the best way I know to deal with it, because the phone app is a closed-source application and can't be changed or debugged.

Laughing Man 2010-06-14 17:57
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Hi, great app. But is it possible to add opening a Google Voice IM session?

x61 2010-06-14 18:05
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
A screenshot or two would be nice....

fcrochik 2010-06-14 18:13
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Laughing Man (Post 714820)
Hi, great app. But is it possible to add opening a Google Voice IM session?
I would love to but I don't really know how it works and I don't have an account to even test it.

I can create connections to anything that supports DBus messages or, worst case, I can just call scripts passing the phone as an argument.

I am still struggling/hoping that I will figure out a way to handle skype calls but so far no luck. I can only assume there must be a nokia dbus message to start the "phone api" calling skype but haven't had any luck finding someone that knows which.

Laughing Man 2010-06-14 18:46
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Oh that's fine then (epage maintains the google voice functionality through tor (not the routing tor) if you want to talk with him.

If I'm typing I would be in landscape mode anyway to use the keyboard so this works well for my use cases as is already.

fcrochik 2010-06-14 21:14
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Patola (Post 714727)
As for as I know, the problem with this approach is that then you have to do the whole housekeeping with the sound - stop it if the phone hangs or if the person picks up, see if the silence profile is on and not play it, and such. Even though I think the workaround used in the python script I referred to is far from the ideal - temporarily override the location for the ringtone file - it's the best way I know to deal with it, because the phone app is a closed-source application and can't be changed or debugged.
Unfortunately you are right and it will get complicated quickly. The very first thing that the system does when you get a call is to mute the other "audio players" so you can listen to it ringing...

fcrochik 2010-06-15 00:01
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Reffyyyy (Post 714724)
I can also confirm almost all the pictures are assigned to the wrong person. I never get the right image no matter what I try.
Yes, found it ... There is a bug with the thumbnails on contacts or emails mode. I will fix on the next release...

Saturn 2010-06-15 00:38
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by fcrochik (Post 705330)
Mismatched?
<snip>...
Yes, right now is a "dumb" algorithm but I have to say that I already like it better than having all the numbers without any separation (like on the standard application). I have international phone numbers with +, some phone numbers with area code and some without on my cell. Some countries have 3 digit prefix (e.g. US), some have 4 (e.g. Brazil) and the international code is not standard (it can be 1,2,3,4 or even more digits long) so it is a little more complicated to format them that one would hope.
...<snip>
Just an idea - You could start from the end in order to separate. That is, from back to front 4, 3, 2 or 3 if last digit, and all other left.

... but maybe you have a better one already.

Thanks for sharing.

FarmerF 2010-06-15 09:30
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Hi fcrochik,

Love the idea of this app but as my contacts are fairly important to me I wondered: Does the app alter the standard contacts in any way?

fcrochik 2010-06-15 13:11
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by FarmerF (Post 715874)
Hi fcrochik,

Love the idea of this app but as my contacts are fairly important to me I wondered: Does the app alter the standard contacts in any way?
No.... The application is read-only with regards to the contacts database. It will not change or affect in anyway your contacts.

eitama 2010-06-15 13:25
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by fcrochik (Post 716118)
No.... The application is read-only with regards to the contacts database. It will not change or affect in anyway your contacts.
BTW Fcrochik, did you file a bug on the slow loading of contacts? or is there an already open bug? or should I open one?

Eitam :)

fcrochik 2010-06-15 13:44
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by eitama (Post 716132)
BTW Fcrochik, did you file a bug on the slow loading of contacts? or is there an already open bug? or should I open one?

Eitam :)
I did not file a bug report. I don't think it is a bug... maybe a feature request... but I did not file that either... I am looking on the implementation of the backend to see if there is any different way of accessing it from my code and speed things up.

eitama 2010-06-15 13:46
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by fcrochik (Post 716154)
I did not file a bug report. I don't think it is a bug... maybe a feature request... but I did not file that either... I am looking on the implementation of the backend to see if there is any different way of accessing it from my code and speed things up.
backend = qt mobility source?

fcrochik 2010-06-15 13:51
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by eitama (Post 716155)
backend = qt mobility source?
Yes! Several bugs were fixed already and I am trying to figure out a way to use the latest snapshot for this application w/o breaking too many things. :)

eitama 2010-06-15 14:01
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by fcrochik (Post 716159)
Yes! Several bugs were fixed already and I am trying to figure out a way to use the latest snapshot for this application w/o breaking too many things. :)
You are just hardcore. Honestly.

fcrochik 2010-06-26 03:16
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Please discontinue using this thread. Refer to this for new version.

MohammadAG 2011-01-21 17:57
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Is this closed source?
(Debian copyright file states GPL and it's in non-free).

fcrochik 2011-01-21 18:12
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MohammadAG (Post 925570)
Is this closed source?
(Debian copyright file states GPL and it's in non-free).
Technically the application is closed source and it is on the "non-free" repository for no particular reason (all my other n900 apps were releases as open source).

Why do you ask? Is there anything that you need/want with the source code?

EDIT: sorry if the debian copyright file is misleading.

MohammadAG 2011-01-21 19:24
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Was just wondering how to process PresenceChanged signals from telepathy, no worries I guess :)

You have to remove the GPL part from there though, the GPL states that if the license is present in an app, then you have to provide the source on demand.

fcrochik 2011-01-21 19:30
Re: [Announce] MyContacts - a long shot on trying to improve the standard contacts/phone application
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MohammadAG (Post 925641)
Was just wondering how to process PresenceChanged signals from telepathy, no worries I guess :)

You have to remove the GPL part from there though, the GPL states that if the license is present in an app, then you have to provide the source on demand.
I will be glad to share with you the code that handles telepathy if you want.

Before next release I will either change the app to be open source or the license on the debian file. Thank you for pointing it out.


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