[Evolution] Bug#740911: backporting the fix

[Daniel Pocock]

On 28/04/14 07:53, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 22:03 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> Please find the revised version enclosed - I believe this is good for
>> the 3.4 branch in upstream evolution-data-server too:
> 	Hi,
> I'm sorry, but 3.4 is dead for upstream currently, we are more than
> 3 years ahead from it right now.

The current stable Debian release will still be supported for at least
another 18 months from now

Many users are quite happy to just take little fixes like this rather
than upgrading their whole system every 6 months.

Even if there are no other fixes you plan to backport, could you
consider making a 3.4.5 tag just with this fix?

>> Personally, I'm more interested in things like making click-to-dial work
>> (see my sipdialer package for example) - it almost works from icedove
>> now and I would appreciate feedback about how to get it working from
>> Evolution too.
> I've no idea what this is about, could you be more specific, preferably
> with a bug report against evolution in GNOME's bugzilla, please?

What I'm referring to is

a) the user clicks some phone number or SIP address on the screen (e.g.
in the address book)
b) their preferred deskphone or softphone starts calling the number or
address


> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=evolution
> CC me on the bug, it'll take my attention to it. There are important
> details how exactly this works. if it's like opening a "URL" of some
> kind "sip://some-phone-number", by clicking the phone number in a
> contact preview, then it should be pretty easy to implement.

It is not quite so easy though - the URL handling is usually not hard,
the question is how do we route the event to the right phone.  I'll put
more details in a separate bug.