Re: [orca-list] skype replacement

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

When I was testing ekiga development seemed to be rather  lethargic, but I see that a new release came out a 
couple weeks back, and the changes required 
to make the program more compatible with the majority of SIP providers were far from rocket science, so  
perhaps things have changed for the better. 
Ekiga  is the program I un-recommended as it were in my original message. 
This is not due to a general lack or acessability, orca mostly works well with Ekiga. It has some nice 
phonebook features, but it does not connect to 
many, perhaps most SIP networks well out of the box, and I did not see clear alternatives. 
The problems have to do with the methods used to determine where a user is, i.e. dealing with dynamic IPs, 
and authenticating. 
I remember being able to connect once to one of my networks, but then after that initial configuration could 
not  correctly identify myself and stay 
connected. 
Linphone for instance conforms to industry standards and norms and provides good security, and can identify 
itself, (register), even on networks 
that are less than ideally configured such as double natting situations.   
It would seeming work well with ekiga.net, but part of the atraction of SIP is not being restricted to any 
one network/service provider. The SIP to 
traditional phones network recommended on the ekiga website a year or more ago when I was testing a few SIIP 
alternatives was very expensive. 
I'm thinking there were some issues when using more than one network at the same time as well. 
With Linphone, and I think with most other softphones one has no unpleasant complications when registered to 
more than one network.
 

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     B.H.
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  Alex Midence wrote:
Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:46:00AM -0500

> I'm a little late on this thread but here's my y two cents:
>
> I seem to recall a package called Ekiga Soft Phone being pretty popular with Orca users a few years ago:
> http://www.ekiga.org/
>
> It may do what you ask as it seems pretty feature-rich, mature  and very skype-like.  
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alex M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Simon Eigeldinger
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 10:24 AM
> To: Milton; orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] skype replacement
>
> Hi,
>
> On windows i press enter on the button and hit f6 to get to the panel.
>
> greetings,
> simon
>
>
> Am 11.10.2015 um 23:07 schrieb Milton:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to click with the help of Orca on the Hello Firefox but with 
> > no xuccess. After a sighted person click it with the mouse the page of 
> > connecting for calling is well accessible with Orca. Maybe I miss 
> > something for clicking on that button?
> > Milton
> >
> > Op 11-10-15 om 11:43 schreef Simon Eigeldinger:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I once played with firefox hello which is done in the browser:
> > > https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/hello/
> > >
> > > Or talky which is also used in the browser:
> > > https://talky.io/
> > >
> > > The browser brings all the stuff you need.
> > > works on Firefox and Chrome.
> > >
> > > greetings,
> > > simon
> > >
> > >
> > > Am 11.10.2015 um 11:22 schrieb Pavel Vlček:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > a lot of my friends are using Linux now. Because Skype for Linux is 
> > > > older and older and we have some compatibility issues, we want to 
> > > > try some skype replacement. Do you know some accessible application, 
> > > > which works as Skype, but is accessible and is maintained? We want 
> > > > audio calls and chat. I tested Mumble, but I think this is for communities.
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > Pavel
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