I'm student in computer science and I'm taking part of Sip-communicator's
development. I undertake a plugin integration for the sounds configuration.
For example, incoming call, busy, ring, and all other configurable sounds
with this plugin.
Currently, each service (UI, ...), contacts the ANS (Audio Notifier Service)
to play a sound. The service supplies an URI(file:/home/..../file.wav), ANS
looks for this file and plays this sound on the speaker.
The main problem of this configuration is that the user can't configurate
the different sound. He has to change the sound file's name in the source
configuration file (net.java.sip.communicator.impl.gui.utils.Sounds.java).
One user download just the installer of sip-communicator couldn't changes
the sound. To modify the sounds, we have to change this file (Sounds.java)
and build the source.It isn't userfriendly for a common user.
My work is to incorporate a plugin for the sounds configuration in the
Tools->Settings menu. I wish to add a table in the ANS with the event/(file
or URI) correspondence. At the beginning this table should be empty. All
services which have to use a configurable sound (incoming call, busy, ...
not the sound of key 1 or key # of keyboard of phone) register it in this
table. Once all sounds registred, AC (plugin of Audio Configuration) asks
the ANS table and creates the interface to allow the user to modify sounds.
I hope my explanation is clear enough, I'm sorry for my rather bad english.
What do you think about this solution ?
You are of course right. The current situation does not allow for centralized notification management so we'd need to add the possibility for modules to register the resources that they use for event notification.
I was wondering though, whether the AudioNotificationService is the best place to implement this. It did seem like a good idea originally, but after I started implementing it in there I thought that it would be nice if in addition to sound notifications we could also configure systray popups, commands to run and other stuff that has nothing to do with audio. I was therefore thinking of creating a new service called:
EventNotificationRegistryService
Modules that would need to register events would do so in this registry service.
What do you think? Does this make sense to you?
Cheers
Emil
Alexandre Maillard wrote:
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Hello everybody,
I'm student in computer science and I'm taking part of Sip-communicator's development. I undertake a plugin integration for the sounds configuration. For example, incoming call, busy, ring, and all other configurable sounds with this plugin.
Currently, each service (UI, ...), contacts the ANS (Audio Notifier Service) to play a sound. The service supplies an URI(file:/home/..../file.wav), ANS looks for this file and plays this sound on the speaker.
The main problem of this configuration is that the user can't configurate the different sound. He has to change the sound file's name in the source configuration file ( net.java.sip.communicator.impl.gui.utils.Sounds.java). One user download just the installer of sip-communicator couldn't changes the sound. To modify the sounds, we have to change this file (Sounds.java) and build the source.It isn't userfriendly for a common user.
My work is to incorporate a plugin for the sounds configuration in the Tools->Settings menu. I wish to add a table in the ANS with the event/(file or URI) correspondence. At the beginning this table should be empty. All services which have to use a configurable sound (incoming call, busy, ... not the sound of key 1 or key # of keyboard of phone) register it in this table. Once all sounds registred, AC (plugin of Audio Configuration) asks the ANS table and creates the interface to allow the user to modify sounds.
I hope my explanation is clear enough, I'm sorry for my rather bad english.
What do you think about this solution ?