Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] GM 3.00 : PLEASE ALL READ AND CONTRIBUTE

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeudi 07 avril 2005 à 12:40 +0200, Bruno Hertz a écrit :

[...]

> Regarding Jabber, rather than reproducing that functionality I'd
> try to provide some interface to e.g. Gaim and other applications
> to let themselves dial through GM, i.e. send a message to GM containing
> the Jabber URL of the contact to be dialed. GM then looks that URL up in
> it's book, gets the contact, picks the (primary?) VoIP number and
> dials it. How that interface should look like I'm not sure. At the
> very basic level, a 'gnomemeeting -remote' call should be possible,
> much like mozilla -remote, to have a running GM instance either dial
> a given number, or look up and dial a contact by a given criteria, like
> an IM URL.
> 

The basics of this interface are nearly done.

Anyway, basically, I see you chose to keep GM as a softphone,
interacting with other software, but with no embedded Jabber.

[...]

> Sorry to say that, but you're currently in the Open Source/Standards corner,
> and when the standards are lacking you'll suffer from that, too. I can tell
> you, the asterisk people are thoroughly pissed off as well, by the problems
> H323 and SIP impose regarding home user internet telephony, and by the success
> of Skype.
> 
> That's why,much like the Skype people, they developed their own proto, IAX,
> which from what I understand is open but currently more or less specified only
> in source code. It doesn't work flawlessly either, especially with regard to NAT,
> but it's still a step forward, even more when the encryption they're working on
> is available.
> 
> But if you hope you'll attract the broad chatter audience with H323 or SIP,
> my bet is that you'll be disappointed. The competition is too good already,
> especially with respect to ease of use. I currently use SIP, but as you know,
> it still needs server support. PC to PC calls or reinvites are practically
> impossible with home users, so even media has to go through the server.
> Halleluja. And H323 is even more of a hassle.
> 

A few years ago, chatters were using Netmeeting and GnomeMeeting, but I
guess that time is over :-/
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