Call for testing empathy

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Xavier Claessens <xclaesse at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

I haven't tried Empathy, but I've never had Ekiga work.  It never
connected & transmitted um...anything.  One time I tried with Spec
(another ubuntu member), and we could get my webcam to send images to
him using OpenWengo, but not Ekiga.  Wengo's a Qt app, though, I
think.

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