I've submited an idea to ubuntu brainstorm ( http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ ) to improve VoIP support in the next release of kubuntu. New ideas are welcome

Here the link:

+1 ! an other idea would be to help out the kopete devs .. e.g. the decibel devs...

i have troubles to get the webcam working in qutecom.. on two different pcs with two different webcams.. it displays green artefacts.. nothing else.. can anyone confirm this behaviour? (ekiga works well)

Can anyone tell me how to set up qutecom or other sip clients to make video/audio call to Msn ?

i didn't know that msn uses the sip protocol .. is that correct??

so.. kopete is waiting for decibel to mature... the last entry on http://decibel.kde.org/ is old... very old.. is decibel still developed?

and can anybody explain to me why kopete needs decibel to talk to telepathy ... why not directly? how does empathy (the new gnome IM) this trick??

PS: as far as i know Windows Messenger supports adding a SIP account but calling MSN is a different task .. i don't know any linux client that supports voice calls to msn at this time.. maybe aMSN.. it supports video and voice files.. you can also try "empathy" .. its a gnome app that supports SIP and XMPP voice and video calls.. maybe msn too in the newes version.. i don't know

Hello waldelf,

you can see here the development activity: http://cia.vc/stats/project/kde/decibel

Also, you can read some interesting mail in the decibel mail list:
- Decibel enters kdesupport: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/decibel/2 ... 00158.html
- Discussion about future Decibel and the Telepathy Spec: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/decibel/2 ... 00160.html

Additonally to what torkiano already wrote:

waldelf wrote:so.. kopete is waiting for decibel to mature... the last entry on http://decibel.kde.org/ is old... very old.. is decibel still developed?

Decibel, being a framework and runtime processes built with that, is splitted over a couple of directories in SVN which might not be combined in the output of tools like cia.vc

waldelf wrote:and can anybody explain to me why kopete needs decibel to talk to telepathy ... why not directly?

Telepathy is not something to talk to, rather a specification how to talk with each other.
Comparably to how HTTP is a specification how to talk to a Web server, but still needing an implementation to be useful to clients.

waldelf wrote:how does empathy (the new gnome IM) this trick??

Using a glib based implementation of the Telepathy spec and at least one additional library built upon this base implementation.

Cheers,
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Does anyone knows about any progress with decibel/kopete? What is planned for 4.4? Can one hope getting at least audio support? Strangely, Jabber Audio and Video support was announced to have been appeared in 4.2 (http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.2/applications.php) but in reality isn't there yet.

Decibel seems to be rather dead then alive...
I wonder is there any sip/voip application officially suggested by KDE?

Ekiga is a good software but depends on Gnome libraries.

i would spend a loooot of money if someone would finally bring stable and easy to use voip functions to kopete ...

it seems to be a really hard piece of work.. even ekiga is far from "everyday usable" ..sometimes the other party thinks you are offline but you are not.. sometimes a connection is established sometimes not.. sometimes you get video from the other side but not vice versa.. i hate to say it out loud.. i am using skype at the moment because after 2 years searching testing and hoping i gave up... (skypes sound and video quality is really bad if you got used to ekiga)

I feel I need to correct myself: jingle support has been included in kopete-4.2, but was unstable and has been removed from later versions. The author has expressed hopes for decibel to help get jingle back to kopete. In the mean time I am using twinkle for audio calls (no video support there). I hope that twinkle will be ported to qt4 someday.

I've just come across this thread and feel I should add a few comments to it.

We're hard at work getting Telepathy support integrated with KDE. When this is complete, Kopete and KDE will have full Voice and Video chat support (along with Text chat, file transfer support etc). At the moment, the code is mostly experimental, but it is progressing steadily.

If you're running KDE trunk and like compiling code and want to have a go, there's lots of Telepathy stuff to be found in the playground/network folder of KDE svn. If not, then look out for the first Telepathy enabled code being released from extragear some time during the KDE 4.4 lifetime. If you're a C++ coder and would like to help out, get in touch with me and I can help you get started

that's wonderful news.. thx for this piece of information and especially for your work!

Glad to hear that this important part of desktop experience isn't dead! Thanks for the update.

In the meantime I have found a program named sflphone, it has GNOME and KDE frontends. Gentoo doesn't have ebuilds for it though, but they have packages for other distros on http://www.sflphone.org/ . Has anyone used this software? Has been unable to compile it so far (mostly due to PEBKAC, I assume).