Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] When Ekiga rings... and when maybe it shouldn't.

[Julien PUYDT <jpuydt free fr>]

Fabien Chevalier a écrit :

> I noticed a strange behaviour of Ekiga regarding the ringtone, when 
> using SIP (it might be the same thing using h323, however i haven't 
> tryed it).
>
> Currently, Ekiga starts the ringtone as soon as the end user starts the 
> call. This means that basically it starts to ring *before* anything is 
> received at the remote end.

So basically you think ekiga should sit still and not tell you it began 
to call ?

> My little knowledge of SIP would tend to make me believe that Ekiga 
> should start the ring tone when it receives "ringing" from the remote 
> side, and not before. In fact i tryed another SIP softphone (SJPhone) to 
> check if my assumption was correct... and it looks like SJPhone does 
> work as described above.
>
> Now, why is this Ekiga behaviour annoying ?
> In fact using free.fr (one of the top alternative broadband operator in 
> France) brand new PC-to-Phone SIP service, the call setup can take 
> between 5 and 15 seconds. During this timeframe, the ringtone rings at 
> my side, which means i will have heard a bunch of ringtones before the 
> other side has started to ring ==> which means i really don't know if 
> the call is so long because the guy at the other end is not there or 
> because the call is still setting up itself.

Hmmmm... annoying indeed.

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