On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:22:12 -0700 John White <[email protected]> wrote:
> This worked well....Linphone now opens from the GUI. Must admit I > had to give up on MenuLibre as it apparently requires slackware 14. > Vector is working on that now. > Please ignore my proposal concerning to MenuLibre as it is merely a Desktop Launcher editor and does not support editing of Desktop Launchers of Link Types, as it seems, nor it support editing of reordering menu categories. > As to the slow loading, that problem is solved (I took all the > "friends" out of linphonerc. However, I now have to copy and paste > contact info (phone numbers), so that's a bummer. I am looking at > faster ways to do this. > Did you try to execute (double click) the Desktop Launcher I attached? Would you like to use your system menu to manage your contacts? Which Desktop Environment are you using? > As to the problem with "enable self view" I can't tell if that is > fixed or not (I doubt it) as I no longer have any video codecs in > preferences. They are apparently in linphonerc, but don't show in > the gui window. I probably don't know how to pass VIDEO=yes to the > build script. Here is what I do: > > # ./linphone.SlackBuild VIDEO=yes > > I then use installpkg to install the SBO file. Linphone runs when I > do this but does the Video Input Device is greyed out and no video > codecs show in Preferences. > > You have already done more than enough. Still, any thoughts you have > about any of this, are most appreciated. > > Genghis Khan wrote: > >>> I suggest to import most of your contacts that are not being used > >>> > >often into an external contact management program that would > >>> > >display contacts in click-able hyperlinks and then use the > >>> > >solution I have proposed. > >> > > >> >I think this a good idea and will try to find such a program. > >> > > > Please let me know when you do. I tried to use the address book of > > Claws Mail and I have failed to make a click-able sip: URI. > > > > In the meantime I think I have a very strange solution which you > > might like. > > > > Using the Start Menu Application launcher (of freeDesktop.org). > > More information athttp://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu > > > > Add a category called VoIP and then extract the attached desktop > > file to ~/.local/share/applications/ > > > > This is the content of the attached file: > > [Desktop Entry] > > Encoding=UTF-8 > > Name=iptel Early Music > > GenericName=Test Music VoIP Bot > > Comment=Call to iptel Early Music > > Type=Link > > URL=sip:[email protected] > > Icon=sip-bookmark > > Categories=VoIP; > > > > You might want to do some of the above actions using MenuLibre. > > http://www.smdavis.us/projects/menulibre > > https://launchpad.net/menulibre > > > -- Proper English www.reddit.com/r/proper 4 teh lulz... http://email.is-not-s.ms _______________________________________________ Linphone-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/linphone-users
