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HdyDialer was deprecated and therefore is replaced with HdyKeypad. HdyDialer used a `gchr *` to store the entered phone number. On every button press the entire text of the display entry was replaced with the new string, which messed up selection and cursor position. HdyKeypad connects directly to a GtkEntry and inserts each button press the same way as a keyboard stroke would do. In the case of the `call display` entry every new digit is appended to the end of the input and therefore it also moves the cursor to the end of the entry. Instead of making the Entry not editable, only the events which would remove text form the entry are blocked, via the `delete-text` signal. And the signal `insert-text` is used to block unwanted chars from beeing inserted. Same as for the `call display` entry also the `new call box` entry is made editable and the signal `insert-text` is used to block unwanted chars. All other user action possible on a entry arn't blocked e.g. repositioning the cursor. The advantage of making the Entry editable is that we can show the cursor position. It also allows the user to select the position where new digits are inserted in the `new call box`. On a button press the focus is set to the Entry to give the correct feedback to the user. This centers the text on the entry, as required by the design. This also makes the delete button remove only one char at the time, to move closer to the desired UX. Related: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/calls/issues/58 Fixes: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/calls/issues/82
Calls
A phone dialer and call handler.
License
Calls is licensed under the GPLv3+.
Dependencies
To build Calls you need to first install the build-deps defined by the debian/control file
If you are running a Debian based distribution, you can easily install all those the dependencies making use of the following command
sudo apt-get build-dep .
Building
We use the meson and thereby Ninja. The quickest way to get going is to do the following:
meson -Dprefix=/usr/local/stow/calls-git ../calls-build
ninja -C ../calls-build
ninja -C ../calls-build install
Running
Calls has a variety of backends. The default backend is "mm", which utilises ModemManager. To choose a different backend, use the -p command-line option. For example, to run with the dummy backend and some useful debugging output:
export G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all
/usr/local/stow/calls-git/bin/calls -p dummy
If using ModemManager, Calls will wait for ModemManager to appear on D-Bus and then wait for usable modems to appear. The UI will be inactive and display a status message until a usable modem appears.
oFono
There is also an oFono backend, "ofono". This was the first backend developed but has been superceded by the ModemManager backend so it may suffer from a lack of attention.
The ofono backend depends on oFono Modem objects being present on D-Bus. To run oFono with useful output:
sudo OFONO_AT_DEBUG=1 ofonod -n -d
The test programs within the oFono source tree are useful to bring up a modem to a suitable state. For example:
cd $OFONO_SOURCE/test
./list-modems
./enable-modem /sim7100
./online-modem /sim7100
Then run Calls:
/usr/local/stow/calls-git/bin/calls -p ofono
Phonesim
One can also make use of the oFono modem simulator, phonesim (in the ofono-phonesim package in Debian):
ofono-phonesim -p 12345 -gui /usr/local/share/phonesim/default.xml
then, ensuring /etc/ofono/phonesim.conf has appropriate contents like:
[phonesim]
Address=127.0.0.1
Port=12345
run oFono as above, then:
cd $OFONO_SOURCE/test
./enable-modem /phonesim
./online-modem /phonesim
And again run Calls.