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I haven't read anything from their blog saying they ended beta (last entry was in april)

Does anyone know that if you dial a long distance number with GCD and have it bounce to your house phone whether your home phone gets charged for long distance calls?

grandcentral is calling both parties in the call, so neither gets charged.

better yet, if you make a grand central web button, you can email it your friends and they can call you long distance for free. (the web button asks them for their phone number and calls them first, then you)

i have a cheap cell phone plan with unlimited incoming minutes but rather expensive outgoing minutes. since i'm at the computer all the time anyway, i put all my regular contacts in my grandcentral address book and use grandcentral for all my outgoing calls. since grandcentral is calling me, i only get incoming minutes.

Thanks man. Don't know how long that goodness will last but I'm looking to drop as much land line charges as possible and use GCD to call long distance and toll calls. Off to the verizon website to stick it back to them. *wicked laugh*

Using the GCD will incur the same charge as any other incoming call. Most home phones are unlimited incoming so it's effectively free.

Thanks. I cannot see this remaining free for long. If people found this out and got wise, the losses to the telecom industry would be HUGE. Not that I mind. ;-)

I believe this is your only complaint I haven't addressed. If you could tell report what your base line is for this, I'll look into it. I'm hoping I haven't broken the magical python starter upper since I haven't really been able to find much information on it and don't have it installed on my 770.

My basis for that was my own memory and watching osso-statusbar-cpu. The CPU went to 100% when I opened it, but that happens with every application. However, with the new version, GC Dialer seemed to take longer to startup than before. I realize this is a very unscientific test, and I'm just going off my own judgement, which is why I say that it "seems" to take more CPU.

As for Python-Launcher (which I believe is what you're referring to...), from what I understand it replaces the python launcher with itself, and then makes the import gtk line REALLY quick, because it's already preloaded. So, the only thing needed for Python-Launcher compatibilty is to use python and to import gtk. If I'm wrong on any of that, please someone correct me...

[edit]Ah, it turns out that python-launcher support in GC Dialer was broken somewhere. The python binary is changed to call python-launcher, but in my gc_dialer.py, the first line is:
Change that to:
And python-launcher support will be back in. Besides, packages should take care of requiring certain versions.

That would do it. The reason it gets changed back to python2.5 frequently is that with python-launcher you can't see stdout ( for debugging ).

I just got the latest SVN, and was playing around with it, and the title change feature is in there, which is great, but there seems to be something wrong with it. The title is now "Dialer - Dialer - (page)", while it should be "Dialer - (page)"

The solution I found was to get rid of "Dialer - " in any calls to self._window.set_title (there were two I found, and it's actually "%s - " and self.__pretty_app_name__). Everything seems to be working great now. Good work on everything!