[Bug 24910] GSM IMSI accessor

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24910

--- Comment #9 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2010-06-08 07:56:48 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > > This doesn't seem to have any change notification. Either add some, or
> > > explicitly say that there isn't any at the moment and UIs should retrieve it
> > > once for each time they want to display it (or something)?
> > 
> > This needs information from someone who understands cellular things.
> 
> The validity period is set by the client and encoded in each SMS we submit.
> Clients typically store the setting in MC which handles the change
> notifications already.

Ah, so this is just CM configuration, and doesn't really need its own change
notification if clients are using the AccountManager correctly. Thanks, I'll
prepare a spec branch that explains this.

> > > Do we want to distinguish between "no SIM" and "I have a SIM but I don't know
> > > its IMSI"? If we do, we could represent "no SIM" as a reserved string that
> > > isn't syntactically a valid IMSI, perhaps "-"; but we probably don't actually
> > > care.
> > 
> > This needs a decision from someone who understands cellular things and UI
> > requirements (Lassi?) before undrafting. I don't care either way.
> 
> I would say we don't need to distinguish between the two cases...

Fair enough.

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