telepathy-kdeconnect

[Nico Fe]

The App has Contacts Permission already. With the new Permission system I'm
working on the user would be asked to give access to the contacts, if not,
the plugin would not load. My plan is to make permissions be optional for
plugins, this could be useful here, but not much since telepathy without
contacts is pretty limited

Am 24.05.2017 12:57 schrieb "Aleix Pol" <aleixpol at kde.org>:

> 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
>
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