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left sidebar: remove "Dialer" and make ring-kde a ring client by name only #40

Closed star-buck closed 6 years ago

star-buck commented 6 years ago

to reduce complexity, lets remove any "general phone center" SIP-stuff like the dialer, but also adress, company, name, organization, etc. as thats all overhead that in a classical whatspapp/skype replacement nobody uses. This simplifies the client tenfolds and makes it possible to actually finish a 3.0 RC in time.

Elv13 commented 6 years ago

Just the dialpad or the whole panel?

Keep in mind that if the whole panel is removed, it's no longer possible to manage video between more than 2 person. It's also the place where missed calls and some errors are listed. It will have to be moved somewhere else if that's removed.

Taking into account missed calls, ongoing calls, multi-party-calls and error handling are important elements, I doubt completely removing the tab is a good idea until/unless these features are seamlessly integrated elsewhere. I also think that adding them on top of the "people manager" tabs will add more clutter than having them in there own little sandbox tab.

Removing the dial pad itself is however a no brainer and doesn't have side effect. It was already disabled by default until you asked me on 29/04/2017 (by email) to enable it by default.

I suggest to disable the dial pad but keep the tab.

For the organization and address, I agree. I have been thinking about making adding those things optional and hidden behind the (+) button to remove the clutter and free up the space. Very few people indeed care about those things. The statistic part will eventually go the way of the dodo too. It's not very useful and take up prime real estate.

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Elv13 commented 6 years ago

What is your idea to integrate the following feature elsewhere. Those things have to go somewhere if they are no longer there.

Please decide / comment on the following alternatives. Feel free to suggest other possibilities.

The missed calls

Possible alternatives:

The errors when a call/chat/whatever just stop

Currently they appear for 3 seconds in the audio/video main media view and then the media buttons appear again.

A change could be made to make the error information permanent until manually dismissed.

How to handle / manage multi-party video chat

This is the main use case of the dial view. If you don't care about this feature, it can be disabled. There is no other pathway in the GUI to enable this multi party video chat / conference calls.

A middle ground compromise would be to show the dial view tab only after the user press a currently non-existent "add participant" button during a video chat session.

star-buck commented 6 years ago

How about you move the search field for new or existing ring-ids only there to the dialer section?

So "Find someone" is shown and active only in that section and you remove it from the other sections, like bookmarks, contacts and timeline. That makes this dialer section at least consistent and people aware if they want to search for people or make calls to exisiting people they use the dialer pad or the "find someone" search field above in that section.

Then you can leave all the rest as is.

Elv13 commented 6 years ago

Yes, that sound likes something that could works. It already does it, but I could improve the workflow to be more search friendly. I will attack the first part of the issue (disable the organization and useless address tabs by default) and then attack this.