EContactPhoto currently only allows the user of EContact to get and set inline photos, which are base-64 encoded.  The vCard specification allows PHOTO fields to refer to external images with a URL, but EContactPhoto doesn't allow this.

I have a patch that changes the EContactPhoto struct to this:

typedef struct {
	EContactPhotoType type;
	union {
		struct {
			char *mime_type;
			int length;
			guchar *data;
		} inlined;
		char *uri;
	} data;
} EContactPhoto;

(it was so much nicer when the union was unnamed, but that is a gcc extension)

Would this patch be considered for inclusion in EDS 1.8?