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

[Sylvain Berfini]

Hi,

You may be interested in the dev_vcard branch of linphone.
We introduced a vCard 4 parser and the CardDAV synchronization in the 
library, and the GTK application can import/export vCard files.
Also the contacts are no longer stored in the .linphonerc file, but in a 
SQLite database like the call history and the chat messages.
This branch should be merged in the master one in the coming weeks.

Cheers.

Sylvain Berfini
Software Engineer @ Belledonne Communications

Le 03/02/2016 19:57, J G Miller a écrit :
> 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?
>
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