Oliver Schinagl wrote: > Hello all, > > first off, Ekiga and Pidgin are great products. They works quite well in > their own domain. > > I was wondering, with projects forking left and right, and about a > hundred several programs/projects doing the same, why wouldn't pidgin > and ekiga concider a merge? If not merge of apps, a merge of resources? > > I know Pidgin is working on libjingle to be used with Pidgin to supply > VoiP/Gtalk functionality, but where is the video part? Or more > specifically, why would you wanna produce everything in duality? > > The way I see it, with libpurple/libjingle you could technically have > any front end client imagineable, focus on the audio/video portion, or > focus on the chat portion, or have it all. > I won't say that OSS projects should try to keep up or what not with > commercial products (skype or MSN for example) but it would be kinda > neat if there was an OSS application that was ahead of the others (think > compiz/XGL sorta). > > Just know, that the last thing I wish to accomplish with this e-mail is > to hit anybody against the shins, nor hurt anybody's feelings of course. > But if a discussion would start from this, and maybe a merge at the end, > why not? > > Thanks for listening/reading anyway,
I did propose some code some *years* ago, but there was no interest from the gaim (now pidgin) developpers. We're currently reworking the inner structure of ekiga, so perhaps it will be possible to build bridges. Snark on #ekiga _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
