Twinkle 1.4.2 VoIP client in ubuntu / xubuntu 14.04?

[Markus Robert Kessler]

Hi Louis,

Linphone is a really nice app indeed, but you cannot use more than one
phone line at the same time.

This is very comfortable when you have to answer a second call, or, if you
have to ask someone else during a phone conference without leaving it.

The developers of Linphone once remarked that there was a "patch" which
included dual-line functionality but it seems that this did not work.

Best regards,

Markus


> Hi,
>
> Le 03/12/2014 10:15, Jackson Doak a écrit :
>> I would suggest you try and find a new VOIP client, as twinkle is dead
>> upstream and many depends are outdated.
>> Maybe also ask the people who have mentioned helping in
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738469.
>> The best way to continue to use the GUI would be to make a PPA with the
>> packages that got removed, and whatever other changes are needed.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Markus Robert Kessler <
>> ubuntu at dipl-ing-kessler.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear developers,
>>>
>>> from the repositories of ubuntu / xubuntu 14.04, Twinkle 1.4.2 VoIP
>>> client
>>> can be installed.
>>>
>>> Coming from Mandriva Linux, me and some colleagues are using Twinkle
>>> for
>>> years now, because it is one of the most sophisticated VoIP clients,
>>> and
>>> comes along with multi-line support and excellent speech quality.
>>>
>>> So there seems to be no alternative.
>>>
>>> Well, if you install this package, then unfortunately only the CLI
>>> version
>>> will work, and no graphical user interface will be started at all.
>>>
>>> Asking why in the ubuntu newsgroup, alt.os.linux.ubuntu, some people
>>> tried
>>> to state that Twinkle relies on QT v.3 libraries and is not compatible
>>> with higher versions. This is what I also had to realise when trying to
>>> compile it on Mandriva.
>>>
>>> But: Could Twinkle be compiled with statically linked QT-resources, so
>>> that it can be added to the repository as a fully working package, not
>>> depending on which QT libraries are installed?
>>>
>>> It's a great application and it would hurt a lot no longer having it.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>> best regards,
>>>
>>> Markus
>>>
>>> (Developer for Perl- and Shell based applications,
>>> Nokia Ulm, Germany)
>>>
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>>
>>
>
> I have been a happy user of linphone for years after giving up on Twinkle.
>
> HTH,
>
> Kind regards,
>
> ...Louis
>
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