telepathy-kdeconnect

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Simon Redman <simon at ergotech.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here are my thoughts about what kinds of data would be needed to keep
> track of contacts and accounts for the telepathy plugin:
>
> Data Needed for Contact:
>   * Contact Name - Human-readable name for this contact
>   * Phone Number - Identify the specific contact
>     ° Maybe we never use this, but easier to plumb it through now and
> never use it than band-aid it on later...
>     ° What about contacts with multiple numbers?
>       - VCard entries have a "type" parameter. "Cell","Home",etc.
>   * Contact Photo
>     ° Added to the wishlist...
>     ° TelepathyQt library's Contact class has a requestAvatarData()
> method. Maybe we could hook into that to send a request to the phone for
> the image.
>
> Data Needed for Account:
>   * Device_ID - Some key unique to a device used only within KDE Connect
>     ° Differentiate accounts so we can choose which one to use to respond
>   * Device Name - Attach a human-readable name to the account
>   * Don't care about phone number associated with device
>     ° We just send a message to a device and say "Send this"
>     ° What to do about multi-SIM phones?
>
> Comments on more or less data to use to represent a contact or an
> account are appreciated!
>
> My problem is: How should the information for the account get from KDE
> Connect to telepathy-kdeconnect? One thing I've noticed so far is that
> there is an instance of each plugin per device, so "Send me all the
> connected devices" probably won't work. Do plugins always exist when a
> device is paired, even if it is disconnected? (Do plugins have a way to
> query whether their associated device is connected?)
>
> It is almost starting to look like we need a new (KDE Connect) plugin
> which supports sending/receiving SMS as well as getting the contact
> information. This plugin could be more tightly bound to Telepathy than
> the current Telephony plugin, such that its only role is to communicate
> with the telepathy plugin.
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>

I'd say that we first want to figure out how we're going to get the
contacts from Android.

Do we want KDE Connect to request addressbook privileges upon pairing?
I hate it when apps do that... :P

FWIW, note that there's value in accessing the contacts beyond SMS. In
fact, if it's just for SMS it's probably not worth it, IMHO.

Aleix