[Ekiga-list] Ekiga & Pidgin merge?

[Julien Puydt]

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.

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