jami-docs/developer/feature-requests.md

Feature requests

This page exists to classify feature requests per users' feedback, to avoid leaving tickets open for years. Under construction, tickets require sorting.

SFL

• Connectivity → Contact #Jami (Francois-Simon) / medium:

  • TURN IPv6 support
  • connection IPv6 only↔IPv4 only

• SIP:

  • Fix IP to IP → Contact #Jami (Adrien, Francois-Simon) / easy
  • Add unit-tests / probably easy
  • Search in system contacts ({client-gnome-issue}1191, {client-gnome-issue}829, etc.) → Contact #Jami (Adrien, Francois-Simon, Andreas, etc.) / easy but long

• Crypto: (Contact #Jami - Adrien)

  • Update media RTP ciphers for ffmpeg / probably easy
  • Support ECC (instead RSA) for Jami accounts / hard but short
  • Remove usages of SHA1 (ids + git) / hard

• Media → Contact #Jami (Adrien, Andreas, etc.)

  • {daemon-issue}POC for AV1 support <27> / probably hard
  • Investigate audio quality (contact #Jami, medium difficulty)

• Plugins ideas: (Contact #Jami - Aline)

  • {plugins-issue}Payment plug-in <27>
  • A chat-GPT plugin

• Add new transports (e.g. QUIC?)

• Add libtorrent support?

• Public page/personal blog available through Jami (Contact #Jami / medium difficulty & long term project)

• Qt:

  • {client-qt-issue}Add support for peer discovery<868> (contact #Jami - easy)
  • Emoji as a native component to avoid depending on qt-webengine for this (not available on macOS) (e.g. https://github.com/jnodev/QMLemoji)
  • Categorized conversations (like favorites, groups, etc) (to discuss with #Jami)

• jami-web:

  • Design architecture to support calls between jami-web and desktop versions → Contact #Jami (Adrien, Francois-Simon) / hard

• Help for the Roadmap 2024: https://git.jami.net/groups/savoirfairelinux/-/epics/58

Some other ideas from tickets:

Planned/In progress

• Improve Jami on Yocto (some codecs problems/lag on i.MX 6) → Contact Rennes
• Qt/QML Improve client → Contact #Jami (Andreas)
  • Implement designs from Charlotte
  • Help for swarms (Francois-Simon)
• {gerrit-project}jami-web; because installing an app can be boring. Joining a conference via a link can be cool. For now, nobody is working on it.

Wanted but not planned

• ?

Can be implemented, contributions welcome (or will take months/years to come)

• {project-issue}add possibility to show "reachable at the following times" (contact details) <1261>
• {project-issue}Preferences per contact (allow calls, file transfer, custom ringtone) <1280>
• {project-issue}Ability to create polls (ideally a plugin with swarm) <1254>
• {project-issue}Support for Panic buttons <623>
• Matrix bridge
• Full TOR support or other alternatives such as lokinet ({project-issue}922, {project-issue}622, {project-issue}495, {client-android-issue}1636), {project-issue}i2p <630>
• {project-issue}Bluetooth support <774>
• {project-issue}Secret-based turn server <886>
• {client-android-issue}Ability to compress files before sending <720>
• Ability to trim recorded clips before sending
• {client-gnome-issue}Spell checking support <1169>
• {project-issue}Echo bot to test audio <392>
• {project-issue}Handle click on jami:uri system wide (missing macOS/Android/iOS) <653>
• {project-issue}Initial audio mode <1288> (need to wait for group chat)
• {project-issue}Feature Request: Volume Slider <1524>
• {client-qt-issue}Portable version for Windows <170>

Depends on mass changes

• ?

Packaging

• {client-gnome-issue}FreeBSD support <1272>

Others

• {project-issue}Collaborative editor <1010>
• {project-issue}A thunderbird plugin <516>
• {project-issue}OpenAlias <928>
• {project-issue}CMIS integration <455>
• {project-issue}Sound safety <441>
• {client-gnome-issue}Ability to see multiple chats at the same time <909>
• {client-gnome-issue}Vocoder option <957>
• {project-issue}SOCKS5 support <430>
• {project-issue}Cardbook integration <383>
• {project-issue}Multiple instances running <629>
• {daemon-issue}Whiteboard <181>
• {client-android-issue}Camera zoom <979#note_29386>
• {client-qt-issue}Emoji reaction in calls <497>
• {client-android-issue}Conversation's background <710>
• {project-issue}[Desktop] Option to have a Window per Chat <633>
• {project-issue}Multiple text selection <1096>
• {project-issue}In-app sticker pack creation <1317>
• {project-issue}Re-order messages <1357>
• {daemon-issue}Remote control <349>
• {client-android-issue}Locked messages (feature that can be enabled to hide messages until they are clicked upon) <1146>
• {client-qt-issue}selecting one or multiple messages and delete them just for the user doing so <1188>
• {client-qt-issue}Drag and drop files from chatview and send to other contacts <485>