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Cross-Platform Video Chat For Linux?
Ethan1701 writes "Some of my friends are using iChat to stay in touch and gap the distance of the Atlantic. I'm feeling left out on my Fedora Gnome based desktop. Is there a good program for Gnome that provides cross-platform instant messaging and video chat? This rules out Skype and aMSN, as well as any other app that's specific for the ICQ/AOL Network. Kopete is for KDE. Pidgin doesn't intend to develop video-chat, I haven't found a plugin for it that provides video, and Gaim-vv hasn't been developed in over two years and is so out of date that it's still going by Gaim and not Pidgin. Do Slashdot readers have an application that meets these needs? Maybe even one that surpasses iChat?"
Ekiga is the worst softphone on the planet.
You could always RDP or VNC to your Windows box running Trillian or a Mac running iChat. There's also VMWare or xVM (VirtualBox). Not pretty, but would work... and I think I recall at least some version of Trillian being pretty stable with WINE.
"Is there a good program for Gnome that provides cross-platform instant messaging and video chat? This rules out Skype and aMSN, as well as any other app that's specific for the ICQ/AOL Network. Kopete is for KDE..."
You're obviously a retarded dimwit. Kopete is NOT *for* KDE. Kopete is a program that serves a purpose. It works just as well in GNOME as it does in KDE, Fluxbox, XFCE, Windowmaker, or any other desktop environment/window manager.
With reasoning as fucked up as yours you probably think a program using the FLTK shouldn't be used by you either because it's "not written for GNOME".
Do us all a favour and piss of back to Billie-G's ass crack.
'making good progress', 'in the works', does not mean 'solution'. mostly, on oss projects, it means there is a small chance someone will stay committed enough to get it going. mostly, though, 'in the works' means 'will be unusable forever'.
now im sure im gonna get flamed, but lets think about it from the user perspective for once (oh the horror). they need the machine to do something. they ask you if it can do xyz. you say 'its in progress'. what good does that do them?
how about if you bring your car to my mechanic shop. you say 'can i convert it to hybrid'. i say, 'well, no, but there are guys up in washington state who sell conversion kits'. 'is there a kit for my car'. 'well, no but, if we take a transmission just like yours and send it to them, they can fabricate a coupler.' "ok what about the battery box". 'well, thats in progress'.
So you're willing to abandon you friendships for an operating system. Good move. Definitely, no matter what, don't run an evil operating system just to talk to your human companions. If software is not sufficiently available for your OS of choice, you should completely forget your friends. This is, of course, logical.
Scum-ball fucking loser.
Your a Fanboy Nerd, aren't you womble ?
Dicks like you make it hard for others to learn. Fu*k off and play with your 'virtualbox' or something.
Maybe you should lay off the crack.
You should lay off the butthurt