On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:37:09AM +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le jeudi 24 janvier 2008 à 16:00 -0800, Ken Restivo a écrit :
> > I've been using Ekiga for all my telephone needs for the last few months. 
> > It's going well. A couple things have been irking me about it:
> > 
> > 1) If I need to correct a phone number (i.e. to add 00 to the beginning of 
> > it), even if I put the cursor at the beginning after the sip:, ekiga still 
> > places any numbers I type at the END of the phone number!
> 
> Using the Ekiga dialpad or the keyboard ?

Either one. Actually, whenever I use the keyboard, the buttons highlight on the 
dialpad, even if I'm not using the mouse.

> I wonder if it has not been fixed after 2.0.3 (we are at 2.0.11).
> 
> > 2) If I cancel a call, sometimes ekiga refuses to accept my numberic 
> > keystrokes in the sip: box, and instead tries to send them as DTMF, even 
> > though the connection is broken. When it gets stuck like that, the only way 
> > to fix it is to quit ekiga and wait and then relaunch it.
> 
> That kind of thing has been fixed iirc.

Thanks. I'll see if I can find an updated package, otherwise I'll build one and 
see if it's fixed.

> 
> > 3) The sip won't take - or () characters, making it really difficult to cut 
> > and paste phone numbers in to call. I was hoping to just type "sip:00" and 
> > then paste and have ekiga dial the number, but alas it does not. I wrote a 
> > little sed one-liner to get around this but it'd be nice if ekiga could 
> > strip out illegal characters like - and () and spaces.
> 
> This one is on our todo list, but it is difficult to determine when the
> character should be replaced or not. For example, sometimes the + is
> needed, sometimes it is not.
>

Thanks! Although there is no + key on any telephone that I know of, I can 
imagine that they (and dashes) might be legal in SIP URL's.

-ken
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