Hi,

Telepathy should be the way, how the phone functionality should be implemented in Maemo 5. I have mentioned in an earlier post, where to find information about it. Unfortunately this is not really easy to implement. We saw that and we are working on more documentation about it. Reverse-engineering the DBus API is not the way it should be done, even though at the beginning it looks like the easiest way to go, but because of several reasons, this is not the way you want to take:

1.) The DBus-API is not stable and might change. This would mean, that your application would not work any more. Telepathy is a high-level framework on top of the DBus API. Go that way and your app won't be affected by changes in a not published API.

2) Using the DBus-API directly might end-up in using it wrong and in security issues, you don't want to see in your app.

At the moment the situation regarding the documentation is not perfect, but we are working on that. Check the news section and stay tuned for more information, examples and documentation. But don't start to use the DBus directly for this purpose, even though at the moment it seems to be the easiest way, but it is no long term solution. Please have some more patience and you will see how it can be done with the telepathy framework.

Cheers Daniel