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SIP and H.323 softphone and Video Conferencing application

	Great
	By Tsu Jan (IP: ---.rasana.net) - Posted on 2009-01-13 06:02:38
So far, Ekiga 3.0.2 has been the only open source Linux application which enabled me to have good voice chat with Google Talk, of course, with some maneuvering. It's a great softphone and deserves high rating.
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	Ekiga on Windows
	By Donato (IP: ---.gw.smartbro.net) - Posted on 2008-06-23 06:52:37
Is Ekiga or SIP available to Windows users? Do you plan to make it available to Windows users? Excuse my stupidity but could you explain if there is a way Linux and Windows users could somehow use Ekiga/SIP to talk and see each other on their PC's.
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	Ekiga on Windows
	By Donato (IP: ---.gw.smartbro.net) - Posted on 2008-06-23 06:45:50
Is Ekiga or SIP available to Windows users? Do you plan to make it available to Windows users? Excuse my stupidity but could you explain if there is a way Linux and Windows users could somehow use Ekiga/SIP to talk and see each other on their PC's.
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	RE: skype
	By Eugenia (IP: ---.hsd1.ca.comcast.net) - Posted on 2006-10-18 20:06:57
No. Skype does not use SIP.
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	skype?
	By tanari (IP: ---.noe.estpak.ee) - Posted on 2006-10-18 19:53:46
can I talk with skype users?
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	RE:
	By Stik (IP: ---.hsd1.or.comcast.net) - Posted on 2006-05-29 17:17:05
How bout a good note here... I love this app. Much nicer than gnome-meeting by far. Great work :D Btw, I'm on a slackware machine and had no problems compiling it and it's deps so I'm not exactly sure what this guy is talking about...
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	RE: RE: -
	By Anonymous (IP: ---.dip.t-dialin.net) - Posted on 2005-07-17 22:36:35
Always a pleasure to give constructive feedback even in 2005 :)
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	RE: -
	By Damien Sandras (IP: ---.skynet.be) - Posted on 2005-07-17 21:33:33
1) Quicknet support will be optionnal in next release. However, it only checks the presence of a HEADER of linux that should be present on any system. Nobody has ever reported a problem with this. 2) LDAP is not optionnal because it would make no sense to make it optionnal. I'm still rather astonished to see comments like yours in 2005, but if you are not happy, you can still contribute patches that will solve your problems and I will happily commit them.
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	By Anonymous (IP: ---.dip.t-dialin.net) - Posted on 2005-07-14 09:14:49
To answer the question related 'use a distribution that offers package managing'. I think this is none of any of your business, how I handle my system. Fact is, that GnomeMeeting has overwhelmingly complex dependencies. Damien, I wonder that you don't even know your own program's dependencies. > I don't know what you mean by Quicknet libraries or > modules, there are none required to compile things. Quicknet is a subset of the H323 library and requires some Kernel patching and module creating. Your configure script explicitly check for Quicknet and if H323 don't support it then it errors out with an AC_ERROR that the support is missing. What I like to say is that all your configure options are checked with AC_ERROR rather than AC_WARNING or something. As soon as some little thing is missing it errors out. So this PWLib needs to be compiled with LDAP support (which LDAP version is not checked, but I figured out it's 2.2.x), later on you need to compile Quicknet and then H323 ontop of it so Quicknet module is supported and then you can get GnomeMeeting somehow to compile. A small application with an overwhelming complexity and strict dependency of things. Even more complex than building Evolution. What I would expect is this: a) If Quicknet is missing, then skip building the part that might depend on it. b) If LDAP is missing, then skip building the part that might depend on it (looks like GnomeMeeting can deal with evolution-data-server quite well). It would be nice if you could make the things more modular and optional rather than forcing the system to offer these things.
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	Re:
	By Damien Sandras (IP: ---.240.81.adsl.skynet.be) - Posted on 2005-07-10 13:17:29
LDAP is not optionnal, but HOWL is optionnal (--disable-howl). I don't know what you mean by Quicknet libraries or modules, there are none required to compile things. I also think that if you don't want to worry about dependancies, there are many distributions available that will solve this problem automatically for you.
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	Debian or Ubuntu?
	By Corey Burger (IP: ---.gv.shawcable.net) - Posted on 2005-06-25 05:47:55
Sorry if you think this is flamebait, but why not try a system that actually has this already installed by default or has a package management system that can handle this stuff?
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	#$"§$%"§!§$%
	By Anonymous (IP: ---.dip.t-dialin.net) - Posted on 2005-06-25 03:32:40
I was avoiding this program for a couple of years now because it scared me away from compiling it due to its strict and shitload of dependencies. And yet again I am proven to simply stay away from it. Sadly, I really liked to test it at least for once but then I don't want to add another 20 libraries to my system only for one small GNOME app. I don't want to blame here but I would appreciate if the dependencies would have been opionally (automatic search during configure) and that parts that are missing should stay out. This application has far more dependencies than written on the mainpage: - QuickNet - LDAP - HOWL To name a few. I was compiling PWLib and figured out that it failed compiling (latest tarball) I then grabbed PWLib and H323 from CVS and compiled it, which went on smoothly. After configuring of GnomeMeeting I figured out that it wanted STRICT versions of PWLib and H323 and I had to alter the configure.in file to match the version numbers that I got installed. Later on I figured out that QuickNet was missing. Hey it's a kernel module I think and you need to compile and install another package for it and alter your modules.config file. Why do I need QuickNet and why isn't this opionally ?. I hacked the check for QuickNet out because there was no option to disable it in the hope that it would skip it. Then after rerunning configure I saw that you need to install LDAP because of the addressbook. Why ? Also not optionally. Ok I went on and installed LDAP from source and then saw that you need to install HOWL. Not that the configure script would automatically detect it (no it doesn't) it also asks for STRICT stuff and fails if not found. Sorry I am not willing to change my system to FIT your application's needs. I think your application should fit the stuff found on my system. The one or other small library can easily be installed but your requirements and the crossrequirements of the other libraries make it a hell to install.
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