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Screenshots: FSO UI Tutorial

Zhone is often told to be a demo application for the free softphone framework (FSO). But it actually is a quite usable phone program that allows to send and receive calls, SMS messages and tells you your gps coordinates. The FSO automagically detects when the gps coordinates are no more shown and shuts down the GPS hardware as long as it is not needed.

Since it mainly only sends commands over dbus to the daemons that actually do the work it is rather stable and even able to do multitasking like allowing you to read an SMS whilst using the phone.

Using VCF within Zhone

Arne sent a small patch that imports phone numbers from a VCF 3.0 address book. Since Zhone has problems with numbers containing + or -, below is a sligthly different patch that removes - and replaces a + with 00.

In /usr/bin/zhone search for class pyphone_contacts(edje_group) and modify the prepare function:

   def prepare( self ):
       if not self.ready and not self.busy:
           file = open(os.environ.get('HOME')+"/addressbook.vcf", "r")
           entries = []
           entry_nr = 1
           name = None
           number = None
           for line in file:
               #if line.startswith("END:VCARD"):
               if line.startswith("TEL;"):
                   number = unicode(line.partition(":")[2].strip())
                   number = number.replace('+','00')
                   number = number.replace('-',)
                   if name and number:
                       entry = entry_nr, name, number
                       entries.append(entry)
                       entry_nr = entry_nr + 1
               if line.startswith("END:VCARD"):
                   name = None
                   number = None
               if line.startswith("N:"):
                   name = unicode(line.partition(":")[2].replace(';',' ').strip(), "utf8", "utf8")
               #if line.startswith("TEL;"):
               #    number = unicode(line.partition(":")[2].strip())
           file.close()
           self.cbPhonebookReply(entries)

           """
           if dbus_object.gsm_device_obj:
               logger.info( "retrieving phonebook..." )
               dbus_object.gsm_sim_iface.RetrievePhonebook(
                   "contacts",
                   reply_handler=self.cbPhonebookReply,
                   error_handler=self.cbPhonebookError
               )
               self.busy = True
           else:
               # Fake phonebook...
               self.cbPhonebookReply( [
                   (1, u'Kirk', '+023224433'),
                   (2, u'Spock', '+034433463'),
                   (3, u'McCoy', '+013244344'),
                   (4, u'Scott', '+013244344'),
                   (5, u'Uhura', '+013244344'),
                   (6, u'Sulu', '+013244344'),
                   (7, u'Chekov', '+456663443'),
               ] )
            """

Installing Zhone on Ubuntu

• Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.lst :

deb http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
deb http://e17.dunnewind.net/ubuntu hardy e17

• Execute:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zhone

• remove this from your /etc/apt/sources.lst

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main

• Now you can finally execute:

zhone

Developing Zhone

• Install Zhone see Zhone#Installing Zhone on Ubuntu
• apt-get source zhone

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