Re: [Linphone-users] Import contacts to Linphone [Win] -- the need for separate contacts and call log files to linphonerc

[J G Miller]

At 13:29h, on Wednesday, February 03, 2016,
in message <address@hidden>,
on the subject of "[Linphone-users] Import contacts to Linphone [Win]",
Mister X asked -

 > Do you know, guys, the way how can I import my contacts to Linphone for
 > Windows? There are dozens of them and it is very cumbersome to enter them
 > manually.

Well you know what the format of a contacts entry is, in the linphonerc file,
so the simple way to do it, since as far as I am aware that there is no facility
in the linphone GUI to import a list, is to write a program (a script in your
preferred scripting language) to append them to linphonerc.

This problem does however highlight the more significant general issue that
linphone should not be continually modifying its linphonerc configuration file.

Linphone should not be putting .linphonerc directly in the home directory but
should like all other well behaved and properly structure programs be putting
its files in the directory ${HOME}/.config/linphone and should have separate
files for contacts and call logs, different from the main configuration file
.linphonerc.

If the competing sflphone can respect the OpenDesktop .config hierarchy
for user configuration files, why not linphone?