[Bug 26866] add support for requesting handles for a vCard field or URI

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26866

--- Comment #28 from Eitan Isaacson <eitan.isaacson at collabora.co.uk> 2010-08-26 12:15:31 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #17)
> Details
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> > +AddressableVCardFields=x-example;tel;email;sip
> ...
> > +AddressableURISchemes=tel;sip
> 
> All non-empty lists in .desktop format should have a trailing semicolon, so end
> both of these with "...;sip;".
> 
> A more illustrative value might be:
> 
>     AddressableVCardFields=x-sip;tel;email;
>     AddressableURISchemes=sip;sips;tel;mailto;
> 
> (X-SIP is the de facto standard vCard field for SIP, as used on the N900. SIP
> and e-mail provide a useful example, because their vCard field names are not
> the same as their URI schemes!)

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> 
> > -          <p>It is not necessarily valid to interpret contacts' identifiers
> > -            as values of this vCard field. For instance, telepathy-sofiasip
> > -            supports contacts whose identifiers are of the form
> > -            sip:jenny at example.com or tel:8675309, which would not normally
> > -            both be represented by any single vCard field.
> 
> I don't think this note should be removed: it corrects a possible
> misinterpretation. Perhaps this should be promoted out of rationale into the
> main text, since it's more clarification than rationale.

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> 
> > +          normalized to lower case (for example: tel, x-jabber).</p>
> 
> I'd prefer examples to be realistic, appear in pseudo-(Python|JSON) syntax, and
> explain what they mean:
> 
>     For example, a SIP connection manager that can also interact with the
>     PSTN might set this to ["x-sip", "tel"].

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