[Rtcomm] [Rtcomm] [Bug 6375] Provides SMS buttons for "Phone" entries and not only "Mobile" entries

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https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6375


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------- Comment #20 from bugzilla770 at nmacleod.com  2009-12-09 21:17 GMT+3 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> So it's probably a WONTFIX for convenience reasons - there's no way when
> importing those contacts from SIM cards (which is a quite common case I assume)
> for the Contacts application to realize whether it's a mobile or a landline
> number and hence it's the way it currently is.
> That's just my guess though.
> 

On Nokia phones it's possible - and has been for some time - to assign multiple
phone numbers to a contact. I've done this in my N85 - contacts have Mobile
numbers, Phone (Home), Phone (Work) etc. and I've just transferred my contacts
to the N900 over Bluetooth, it all worked perfectly.

So now I have my contacts with their various phone numbers, and of course each
phone number has a blasted SMS button even when sending an SMS to the
respective number is completely impossible.

So please, do not show SMS except for mobile phone numbers, or give the user
the option to hide the SMS button for non-mobile phone numbers.

In addition, when starting a new Conversation and selecting the "To" recipient
it shouldn't be necessary to list for me all the phone numbers assigned to a
contact when only one of the available numbers (the mobile phone number) is
capable of receiving SMS (when only one SMS capable number is available use it
by default - don't ask me). I'm having to make this choice every time I want to
send an SMS simply because somewhere in the world a land line can receive an
SMS text, what a pain! :)

These simple changes would make the overall experience that bit slicker.

I can understand that there might be issues when importing numbers from a SIM
card whereby the numbers are not correctly categorised but that should be an
issue for the "import" process or can be overcome with a simple option (treat
all numbers as SMS capable etc.) or even by the user manually re-assigning
their numbers into the correct category (mobile phone, phone work, phone home
etc.). 

And to cater for the rare occasion when a non-mobile phone will be the
recipient of an SMS it should be possible to flag specific numbers as being SMS
capable (the default being "true" for mobile and "false" for non-mobile) and
have this flag honoured by the SMS button (and the Conversation app when
filtering recipients)

(In reply to comment #2)
> 
> In the UK at least landline numbers can also accept SMS.
> 

Yes, and no doubt elsewhere in the world too but I would suggest that this is
the exception rather than the rule. It seems a shame to spam every phone number
with the SMS option when for most non-mobile numbers the SMS option is invalid.
This lack of differentation between SMS-capable and SMS-incapable numbers is
also a problem for other parts of the system, ie. Conversation.

A way to enable SMS for specific numbers would be ideal, as per the above
suggestion.


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