Improve conference creation

Actually to add a call to the conference, the user has to drag and drop the other call. This is bad, because the feature is hidden and can be improved a lot. Also, this behaviour make it impossible to merge a SIP call with a Jami call (which is possible to do in the daemon).

Idea

Use the same widget as the SIP transfer call (the dropdown), showing current calls on all enabled accounts + present contacts (because calling a non present contact is a non sense in our case). And just click on the wanted item to add it to the conference.

TODO

• UI: create the dropdown showing active calls/conferences and present contacts (a treeview should be created for the user)
• LRC: refacto, and readd a collectionInterface to be able to create custom models like this one
• [ ] UI: The interface should be updated when new presence/calls
• [ ] Daemon: avoid automatic call holding when creating a new call
• [ ] LRC: modify joinCalls to be able to merge with calls from other accounts
• [ ] UI: add filter
• [ ] tests, tests, tests, tests.

POC

https://review.jami.net/c/ring-client-gnome/+/12140

https://review.jami.net/c/ring-lrc/+/12141

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Please enable Jami to add intercom calls to a conference, cf. https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-client-gnome/issues/1006. Thank you

Not related. Here, if the contact is present in the list, it will start a call with.

@sblin does that mean that a 3-way audio-only conference call will be able to made as the list will show the intercom account name if another device is online? Thank you

No, because you already have a call with the contact (you)

A contact is not a device, a contact is an id.

Sorry for not writing clearly. If a contact is online with 2 devices can an intercom call be made with the contact? The contact could be an organization which has 1 Jami ID with many people using that Jami ID on multiple devices. If the people are no longer at the organization, there access to the Jami ID is removed (their device is returned to the organization) and a new person in the organization is given the device with the Jami ID. Contacts for the organization stay with the organization. Useful if a person leaves the organization and goes to a competitive organization.

Organizations can also have team meetings using the 1 Jami ID.

What do you think?

Thank you

This is unwanted I think. Each person in the organization should have its own Jami ID signed by the organization. Also having different jami id allow the organization to have a username by id like rh@orga.ns, cto@orga.ns.

If a person quit the organization, the jami account is revoked, should not be handled by the device

Note about this usecase, some news should come soon

Will there be another option to join an incoming call when you are already in a call? Thank you

If you are in a call and one is incoming, you will see the incoming view.

Will the incoming call have another option to add the incoming call to the current conference call? Thank you

Once answered, you can join the call you want. Where do you want this option?

An incoming call should have addition options to merge and swap if there is a current call in progress. This option should be in the system pop-up as well as in the Jami window.

For more inspiration, please see How to Merge Calls on an iPhone: 11 Steps (with Pictures).

Can Add call, Merge calls, Swap, Private buttons be added to Jami?

It would be create if there was another option for an incoming call to forward (i.e. Call forwarding) so that the call could be redirected to another Jami account.

Call forwarding as nothing related to remove the drag and drop for conferences :)

feel free to open feature requests for this. Will be better in another issue.

https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-client-gnome/issues/1060

https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-client-gnome/issues/1061

@sblin has an understandable answer to https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-client-gnome/issues/1052#note_14363 be provided above? Thank you

Can any party to a conference call add contacts to the conference?

What happens with the added contacts to the other parties in the conference who do not have that contact in their list?

Thank you

Actually, a conference is just a join of calls. So, if the peer do a conference from its side, the video stream will be splitted to see the conference stream and the other peer. I never tried, but the result will be a bit ugly.

Sorry, we didn't write what we were thinking correctly. We were asking about about audio-only conferences.

@sblin you brought up an excellent use-case which we didn't think of as we were thinking of audio-only conferences. Should the video-conferences merge with the host or can the stream be distributed and that the video stream is merged into one conference but hosted on multiple devices?

Thank you

The conference is still hosted by the master. There is no distributed authority for hosting the conference here.

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