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 (jami-client-gnome#1191, jami-client-gnome#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.)

  • POC for AV1 support / probably hard

  • Investigate audio quality (contact #Jami, medium difficulty)

• Plugins ideas: (Contact #Jami - Aline)

  • Payment plug-in

  • 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:

  • Add support for peer discovery (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: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)

• add possibility to show “reachable at the following times” (contact details)

• Preferences per contact (allow calls, file transfer, custom ringtone)

• Ability to create polls (ideally a plugin with swarm)

• Support for Panic buttons

• Matrix bridge

• Full TOR support or other alternatives such as lokinet (jami-project#922, jami-project#622, jami-project#495, jami-client-android#1636), i2p

• Bluetooth support

• Secret-based turn server

• Ability to compress files before sending

• Ability to trim recorded clips before sending

• Spell checking support

• Echo bot to test audio

• Handle click on jami:uri system wide (missing macOS/Android/iOS)

• Initial audio mode (need to wait for group chat)

• Feature Request: Volume Slider

• Portable version for Windows

Depends on mass changes

• ?

Packaging

• FreeBSD support

Others

• Collaborative editor

• A thunderbird plugin

• OpenAlias

• CMIS integration

• Sound safety

• Ability to see multiple chats at the same time

• Vocoder option

• SOCKS5 support

• Cardbook integration

• Multiple instances running

• Whiteboard

• Camera zoom

• Emoji reaction in calls

• Conversation’s background

• [Desktop] Option to have a Window per Chat

• Multiple text selection

• In-app sticker pack creation

• Re-order messages

• Remote control

• Locked messages (feature that can be enabled to hide messages until they are clicked upon)

• selecting one or multiple messages and delete them just for the user doing so

• Drag and drop files from chatview and send to other contacts