[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#492793: telepathy-sofiasip: "username" prompt is confusing

[Jamey Sharp]

Package: telepathy-sofiasip
Version: 0.5.8-1
Severity: wishlist

It took me a long time to figure out how to create a SIP account using
this package, because I didn't realize that the "Username" field must be
a URI with the "sip:" scheme, and the only feedback I got was a generic
"Network error". (I'm using the "empathy" UI, if that makes a
difference.)

Three wishlist requests come to mind to help future users:

- Document the allowed forms of the username field somewhere.
- Provide meaningful error messages if the username couldn't be parsed.
- Perhaps prepend "sip:" to the username if it isn't already present.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages telepathy-sofiasip depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.7-10      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.1.2-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.74-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.16.1-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libsofia-sip-ua-glib3        1.12.9-1    Sofia-SIP library glib/gobject int
ii  libsofia-sip-ua0             1.12.9-1    Sofia-SIP library runtime
ii  libssl0.9.8                  0.9.8g-10.1 SSL shared libraries
ii  libtelepathy-glib0           0.7.11-1    Telepathy framework - GLib library
ii  telepathy-stream-engine      0.5.3-1     stream handler for the Telepathy f

telepathy-sofiasip recommends no packages.

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