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I've been checking out the http://jitsi.org/. It used to be SIP Communicator, but has added support for all common IM protocols. It does video calls and desktop sharing over SIP and XMPP. The only disadvantage I can find is that it is does not work with ekiga.net (because ekiga.net uses a not-recommended method of NAT traversal).

Jitsi seems to be developing quickly and has proven rock-solid for me in daily use.

Not available in my country either (South Africa). I meant Google Chat which supports voice/video over the net, whereas Voice is net-to-land. Sorry for confusion.

Not used this myself, but heard on the FOSS weekly podcast about http://www.jitsi.org/ :-)

http://jitsi.org/

First of all, if you are using e.g. MSN protocol with Jitsi all the data goes through Microsoft servers and are again in the exact same situation as before and liable for listening. Thus you have gained nothing. Secondly, if you instead use one of the decentralized protocols you have to deal with all the hassles it entails, like for example setting up the server settings and such. Considering that I will want to be able to chat with my friends and family, and they will want to chat with their friends and families, and their friends will want to chat with their friends and so on everyone would have to deal with that hassle. It's a lot easier to just use one of the centralized ones. Ie. atleast none of my non-geek fellows will want to start using non-centralized stuff and there's no point in telling them to change client just to use the same stuff they are already using.

> No one has ever heard of Jitsi or similar.

Now they, have, thanks!
http://jitsi.org/

Skype doesn't work with my webcam, even though the OS supports it with other programs. My family (don't know about yours) won't mind installing Jitsi, ... win!

GNOME's empathy is another: http://packages.debian.org/sid/empathy

Pidgin too.