Re: Some new queries

On 03/11/15 17:21, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I note that, in searching for people, using the ekiga.net directory, the
> only information shown, for people found (and, from memory, it is the
> only information that can be entered about the person, when setting up
> an ekiga account), is the person's name as entered (I did find a few
> Fred Flintstone's, so I assume that some people are using aliases for
> their names), and, the sip address.
>
> I saw on the ekiga web site (the .org one), information that a
> super-dooper new version of ekiga is being developed; version 5, as
> mentioned at http://ekiga.org/news/2015-03-08/ekiga-5.0-next-big-thing .
>
> That web page does not (I believe) include reference to the prospect of
> additional personal information being included and retrieved, so, my
> first question is thus; do the plans for ekiga v5, include the prosepct
> of expanded personal information - user profiles - so as to include
> useful information such as location - locality and state/province and
> country, with timezone; eg UTC+xxxx (here in Western Australia, for
> example, we are UTC+0800), and preferred language for communication?
>
> These can be useful items of information, for determining whether to try
> to contact an unknown person, and, if a user decides it is worthwhile to
> try to contact an unknown person, what the time difference is likely to
> be, and therefore, a likely reasonable time to try to contact the other
> person. The timezones can also be useful, for when a user forgets the
> time differences for people with whom the user havs previously been in
> contact.
>
> This kind of nformation, was part of the information that was available
> to be included (not required to be included, but, could be included, if
> a user was willing), and, thence, could be retrieved in examining a
> person's prifile, in the usable version of skype; v2.2, before microsoft
> sabotaged skype.
>
> I believe that skype 2.2 also included, in the personal profiles,
> provision for such information as age and birthdays, etc.

I worked a bit on that 2-3 years ago.  Currently, nothing has changed in 
that area.  I do not have any opinion on this feature.  During Ekiga.net 
rework, we could take this into account.  Again, if Damien does not 
aswer in 1-2 days, create a bug report.

> Also, in noting that ekiga is available for Linux, and "NetBSD, OpenBSD,
> OpenSolaris and other Unix-like systems.", and, for MS Windows, does
> ekiga run on tablet PC's, including Windows Tablets, like the MS Surface
> ones, and, on android tablet PC's? I understand that the android OS is
> said to be Linux-based.

Well, it does not work there, I will update this text.

-- 
Eugen