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Originally Posted by scifi.guy View Post
@activemind - Now I understand why you took so long to reply to my post :)

Regarding the priority and system-based approach, I'd really like to hear from other users to understand the usability. So far the most common request I got was the support for multiple profiles and routing based on country codes.
Suggestion of making routing priorities made by activemind is somewhat sensible, however I'm not sure how easy and usable that solution would be.

I've made few suggestions directly over the email to scifi.guy already, so let me recap quickly these for guys here in this thread. First of all, I'd love to see Vicar directly integrated on per-contact level, so each contact card would have additional button that would place a call using Vicar "calling card" number. See attached image as an example. Current solution of Vicar intercepting ongoing calls isn't ideal and I sometimes ended up being charged for cellular call just because Vicar didn't catch up on time. Having per-contact buttons would make that step obsolete.

However, another major feature I'd love to see is support for multiple "calling card" profiles. For example - I could have different CC number to place calls to mobiles, different CC for landlines, different for country XYZ etc.

Obviously, merging both features would be quite troublesome, as creating *a lot* of additional buttons in single contact card (for every contact number and for every Vicar profile) isn't ideal at all, especially when one tends to keep many numbers saved per contact, like me. ;)

All in all I think "golden" solution here would be something in-between, example:
  • Each contact card's number would have dedicated "Call via Vicar" button. Ideally Vicar buttons would only be available for international numbers, not all of them.
  • Now depending whether Vicar itself would have one or more calling card profiles created:
    • Single profile - "Call via Vicar" button would place a call straight away using that profile.
    • Multiple profiles - "Call via Vicar" would trigger additional, simple dialog window with Vicar profiles listed which should be used for that paritcular call.

So these are two main features I'd love to see in Vicar at some point. Having those implemented would make application just complete for me. :) In fact, Vicar already works quite well for me and I really miss its equivalent for Symbian, so I could setup cheap international calls in my wife's Nokia X6 (as unfortunately Truphone doesn't seem to support X6). ;)

I also made a suggestion of making Vicar not a standalone application in apps menu, but an entry in system settings window, as I believe it fits better there, but this is very minor request.
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