Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] When Ekiga rings... follow-up

["W.P." <laurentp poczta onet pl>]

Użytkownik Fabien Chevalier napisał:

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> How to fix the issue ? Here are 3 possible solutions:
>   1 - Do nothing until we receive the "ringing" SIP message. Then start 
> ringing. I would tend to believe that the user does not need any 
> feedback to know that the call is in progress. In fact the user asked 
> the phone to dial somewhere. It wouldn't make sense for the phone to 
> *silently* ignore the user action. The phone should throw up un error 
> message saying that something bad prevented it to start dialing instead. 
> But i bet that it is already the way Ekiga works, isn't it ? (and by the 
> way, it is the way most UNIX commands work too :-) - They do not print
> anything on success)
>   2 - Create a new king of tone : a "dialing tone". Play the "dialing 
> tone" until we receive the "ringing" SIP message. Then play the 
> "ringing" tone.
>   3 - implement a Throbber to notify the user that the call is in 
> progress. Launch the ring tone only when we receive the "ringing" SIP 
> message.
>
> I would personnally go for 1 or 2. 3 would work too but requires more work.
> For your information, SJPhone implements solution 2.
>
> Polls are opens!! What do you guys think of these solutions ??
>  
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I personally vote for solution 2, this method is in use in my GSM 
network in Poland: at the beginning of call you hear something like PSTN 
"dialling pulses" (sometimes for a second or two ;) ) and after that you 
receive ringing tone OR several short beeps if there is a problem in 
network.

W.P.