On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 07:41:19AM +0200, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:49:57 +0000 > Rodrigo Martins <r...@firemail.cc> wrote: > > Dear Rodrigo, > > > toxic is a curses command line interface for the tox protocol. With > > it you can do group audio calls and one on one video calls. toxic > > doesn't (yet?) let you share your screen, but other tox clients, like > > qtox, do. > > > > I won't say it is suckless, but it is somewhat close. One could > > easily use the tox library to implement a suckless tox client, take a > > look at some echo bot code examples. > > Dimitris Papastamos, z3bra and I had worked on ratox[0] (with useful > scripts here[1]), a suckless Tox-client, back in 2014. After the second > toxcore-API-iteration within a few months we were fed up with it, > though, and the project was put on hold. > > It was inspired by ii (FIFO-based-model), and we had some pretty cool > state-machine-magic going on there. Ratox, among other things, even > supported voice and video calls via FIFO, which was really cool! >
One of the nice features worth highlighting about it I think was you could also use any binary stream (not just voice and audio) over it. For example I briefly tested a VNC connection over the Tox protocol and it worked quite well. > If you're looking for a project, bringing this back up to speed with > mainline-toxcore might be a nice thing. :) > > With best regards > > Laslo > > [0]:http://git.2f30.org/ratox/log.html > [1]:http://git.2f30.org/ratox-nuggets/log.html > -- Kind regards, Hiltjo
