[Telepathy] On removing/standardizing .profiles

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 05:46:53PM +0100, Will Thompson wrote:
> On 01/06/10 19:37, Will Thompson wrote:
> >• Add methods to filter Tp::Accounts by enabled-ness, online-ness,
> >capabilities, etc. to Telepathy-Qt4.
> 
> Relatedly: http://people.freedesktop.org/~smcv/telepathy-spec-protocols/spec/org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Protocol.DRAFT.html#org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Protocol.DRAFT.VCardField
> implies that we currently don't have any way to say “this protocol
> supports calling these kinds of identifiers”. For instance, SIP and
> Skype can call PSTN numbers; the sip.profile on the N900 has the
> following stanza:
> 
> [Action call]
> Name = ...
> VCardFields = X-SIP,TEL
> prop-....ChannelType-s = ...StreamedMedia
> 
> to indicate that you can call contacts who have either an X-SIP
> field or a TEL field using SIP accounts.

TEL entries always scare me a bit, because in the end every succesful VOIP
protocol will have some kind of POTS gatewaying. And it tends to be a quite
dynamic thing (Although you could define it for specific SIP services you know
always do forwarding), e.g. for XMPP you need to define what's your gateway
service.

  Sjoerd
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