[maemo-developers] Plugging in custom calling buttons in contacts

[From: Martin DeMello]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Edward Page <eopage at byu.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Dawid Lorenz <adl at adl.pl> wrote:
>> Here's the thing - I quite often place international calls from UK using local "proxy" landline numbers. So for example I place call to "0123123123p0048xxxxxxxx", where 0123123123 is UK landline number from provider that offers cheap international calls, then number starting 0048 is actual target number in Poland I am calling to. Dialling numbers that way is obviously slightly inconvenient, so my idea is to insert additional button to each contact, which might look like this:
>
> In theory you could create a plugin (telepathy connection manager)
> that registers for TEL fields.  It would then proxy all of the calls
> to the real connection manager, tweaking the number being sent by a
> given prefix.

That seems like overkill - all you need is a way to add an action to
the contact manager that prepends the proxy service to the phone
number and then statically adds it as another field to the contact.

martin