I'll submit it as a feature request. Thanks,
Jake On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Damien Sandras <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Le vendredi 15 mai 2009 à 15:22 -0400, Jacob Beard a écrit : >> Hi all, >> >> I'm currently examining the feasibility of switching my grandparents >> from Skype to Ekiga. I think that learning a brand-new interface is >> going to be too hard for them, and so I'd like to make things very >> simple by just giving them a desktop icon that they can double-click >> in order to call me. In GNU/Linux, this is very simple, as I can just >> invoke ekiga from the command-line with the -c flag. On Windows >> version 3.02, though, it complains that an instance of Ekiga is >> already running, and ignores the flag. Is there a way to get the Ekiga >> Windows build to accept the command-line arguments? If not, is there >> another way to implement the effect I have described, where it is >> possible to create an icon that forces an already-running Ekiga >> instance to dial out to a particular SIP address? >> > > Unfortunately I see no way. > > Nobody implemented that mechanism for WIN32. It is not very difficult to > do. I remember that XMMS in the old days was using a socket mechanism to > check that an instance was running and if it was the case, it was simply > sending a command over the socket interface. > > Ekiga can not do that (yet). But Michael Rickmann is doing a lot of work > on the win32 build nowadays. > -- > _ Damien Sandras > (o- > //\ Ekiga Softphone : http://www.ekiga.org/ > v_/_ Be IP : http://www.beip.be/ > FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org/ > SIP Phone : sip:[email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
