Hi Simos, Well, I'm new to ekiga, but if I understand correctly, each account, say sip:[email protected] <sip%[email protected]>, can have a numeric alias, say [email protected], so that I can call John from an ATA (i.e., my phone has a numeric keypad, but not a full keyboard). I understand this functionality used to exist, but was removed sometime in 2008, along with the web-based account maintenance. I just cast my vote to bring it back. :-)
I will look up this issue in Bugzilla, thanks for the pointer. Catalin On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Simos <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/3/25 Catalin Francu <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > > > First of all, thanks for Ekiga! Second, I'd like to add my vote to bring > > back the web interface, or at least the numeric alias feature. > > > > As a bit of background, I am looking for a new VoIP provider for a circle > of > > about 20 family and friends. We have used FreeWorldDialup in the past, > and > > even paid for membership in 2008, but their service has been appalling > > lately. We all use Handytone 286/386/486 ATAs, and we would like to keep > > using them. Most of these people are non-technical users and they would > have > > a hard time using a soft phone; besides, they are not in the habit of > > keeping their computers on 24/7. Me and my brother took the time to set > up > > and configure all these ATAs. > > > > Now we would love to switch to ekiga.net (we have been free software > fans > > for many years), but to do so, we need numerical aliases in order to > > continue using ATAs and regular phones. > > > > There are several advantages to using an ATA over a soft phone: there is > no > > need to keep the computer up 24/7, we can use any phone we like (e.g. a > > cordless one or an answering machine) etc. Please, bring back numeric > > aliases! > > I am not sure what you mean with numeric aliases. Can you give an example? > > The way to go forward with this request is to > 1. Check at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=ekiga > is the issue has been already reported. > You normally go through the bug reports and try to find a similar request. > 2. If [1] was fruitful, subscribe to the bug report. > 3. If [2] was not fruitful, then you can add a bug report (of the type > 'feature request') > and put here the URL to this bug report. Other users that are interested > can subscribe to the report and add their input. > > Hope this helps, > Simos > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list >
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