On 27/12/16 21:23, [email protected] wrote:
> Time and again Jitsi is mentioned as a (the) serious alternative to
> Skype. But it is so cumbersome to get up and running.
I decided to have a go at Jitsi, so I installed it from the
Install/Remove Applications menu from Trisquel.
Very much like Icedove, on the first run it opens a window
prompting you to add accounts. And it is a promising-looking windows,
because it shows possible accounts such as Facebook. It made me to get
in a nostalgia mood... long ago, when I was still an Ubuntu user, Pidgin
was able to handle all my instant messaging accounts... IRC, Yahoo!,
Hotmail, Facebook, Google... even Skype, though only for chat - for
calls Pidgin would launch the separate Skype app. Sadly, Facebook and
Hotmail evolved to be incompatible with Pidgin, and I'm having problems
with Yahoo! too. They want you to install their own messengers, but I
don't want to have six separate instant messaging software running at
any time, I want just a single one which is able to handle all
accounts. So the opening of Jitsi gave me hope.
But then... hell. So far I have entered my accounts at Facebook,
MSN, SIP and Yahoo! and none works. It fails to retrieve the contact
list. No way I am adding my contacts manually, first because they are
too much, second because if you fail to do the minimun, basic task of
retrieving my contact list and showing me that you are working well, I'm
not trusting you enough to put more work into you.
So far, Jitsi only looks like a piece of malware designed to get
hold of your instant messaging accounts and their passwords.
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Ignacio Agulló · [email protected]
