On lun, 2008-08-11 at 16:07 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Il giorno dom, 10/08/2008 alle 13.55 +0100, Alexander Jones ha scritto: > > > > Saying that Ekiga meets the VoVi needs of Pidgin users is pretty > > ridiculous. It's SIP for a start, nobody uses SIP, and for the few > > that do, TELEPATHY SUPPORTS SIP TOO! > > It took a long time for ekiga to work properly. I think most people > stopped using it because it had bugs. Now I can answer a phone call to > my voip number from anywhere using ubuntu and its default applications - > this is why I started using ekiga. If anything has to replace it, it has > to be stable in turn, since stability is the only useful feature of > ekiga right now :) If the new software will be crashy and buggy, people > will just say that "voip is broken in ubuntu as it always was with > ekiga" - this would not be good.
I think we all agree that Ekiga does a far better work for SIP than Empathy does at the moment... > In any case, I can't find how to add an account with my SIP provider, I > can just add three or four "trademarks" like sipphone but not an > arbitrary provider, which I can do in ekiga. Also, is yahoo instant > messaging supported? Can libpurple be used? Can I directly import my > pidgin accounts? The latter is very important for upgrades. You can just add a SIP account and set your provider. We have some preconfigured providers but it is not required to use them. Yes empathy can use libpurple if you install telepathy-haze, it provides support for all piding's protocols. Xavier Claessens. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
