[Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day: Hunt for Skype alternatives

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:34 PM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> Dan MacDonald <allcoms at gmail.com>
>> [...] and if you're a gmail user then its nice
>> not having to install and configure an extra client- it generally
>> 'just works' TM, R etc
>
> Except when it doesn't, then you're stuffed.
>
>> So, there are no working XMPP/Jingle clients for neither JACK nor KDE/Qt? :/
>
> Surely some of them on
> https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120920-01.en.html#id-table work
> under KDE?  Kopete seems suspicious to me.  Actually, the table could
> do with a "protocol" column, as some (Jitsi, for example) can do more
> than one.

Because Kopete is pretty much outdated and unmaintained, nowadays one
should use kde-telepathy for that, works quite fine here for XMPP.

Regards, Myriam

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