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2010-07-20 , 02:04
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#677
Originally Posted by uvatbc View Post
I agree about the "number-of-clicks-it-takes-to-dial-out" bit, but I'm not jubilant about my status yet: I don't have a common way to dial out.
On the n900 to dial out via GSM, there is a d-bus "api".
But it is recommended to use telepathy. Why? Because thats "the one way" that works for GSM, skype, and sip on the n900 without any hackiness like talking straight to dbus.

In the last 2 months that I've read and re-read the telepathy documents, I've learnt a lot, but not enough to understand how to dial out without me being the one handling the protocol details.

My hunch is that I will probably have to be content with dialing out using dbus on the n900 - which means no dial out for skype or sip on n900.

PS: On desktop linux and windows, I can dial out using skype - no telepathy involved there.
Before I've always hunted around on the CM side of things. Today I looked a bit at the client APIs. There is the Approver Interface. Sadly I think the call is already approved before the "Accept"/"Reject" buttons appear.

This means its back to hacking the UI through CM if at all. What I tried before was trying to imitate hitting the "Accept" button. The main problem with this is the Ui has to recognize you've done this. I've only played with this through adding the person and maybe a little bit extra.

I'm at the point of concluding that I don't think its possible. I'm contemplating talking with the Telepathy folk about some possible additions to the Client API to make our job easier.
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