linphone and address books

[Rob van der Putten]

Hi there


On 02/06/2023 10:03, Rainer Dorsch via Pkg-voip-maintainers wrote:

> I am using linphone since quite some time and it works very reliable for me.
> One feature I am missing is the import of existing address books (either from
> a vcf file, a carddav server or similar). Read only is sufficient for me. I see
> in settings, there is an advanced menu, which has an entry address book
> sources. But then it seems I need a plugin for that? Can anybody tell if and
> how that works?

This is something one would expect but appears to be missing.
I did get it to work though;
http://www.sput.nl/software/homebrew/linphone/#import

> Another minor issue I have is that an ongoing call in linphone does not
> prevent KDE to go into suspend mode, if there is no user input.
> 
> Alternatively, are there in bookworm alternative SIP clients, which you are
> recommending and integrate well with KDE Plasma?
> 
> Any hint or advice is welcome.


Regards,
Rob