Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

[Xavier Claessens <xclaesse gmail com>]

Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 20:08 +0100, Wouter Bolsterlee a écrit :
> 2009-01-11 klockan 19:52 skrev Guillaume Desmottes:
> > Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 16:21 +0000, Sjoerd Simons a écrit :
> > > [...] add telepathy-farsight[0] as an external dependency for that for
> > > Empathy's voip support. [...]
> > Just to complete this, the advantages of this switch include:
> > - Farsight 2 can use more video codecs than Farisght 1. That means we'll
> > be able to use, for example, Theora as so have video conferencing
> > working out of the box (FS1 supports only H264 which is patented).
> 
> Out of curiosity, how does this relate to the functionality offered by
> Ekiga? If there is overlap, perhaps some integration work is in place?

I don't think it really change the situation. There is some overlap with
Ekiga from the beginning. However empathy is not a softphone, Ekiga is
by far more mature and has lots more features than empathy for SIP
voice/video.

Xavier Claessens.