On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 17:38 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sat, 2008-02-02 13:01:34 +0000, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > > R?mi Cardona wrote: > > > As Skype is a proprietary application, I think it'd be a good thing if > > > they did their PA support like Macromedia/Adobe did for flash, using > > > libflashsupport. > [...] > > Big +1 on this. Making it a community project would seriously help their > > Linux users and as a result their reputation (Skype's) would increase. > > Where's the actual pro for Skype? I'm somewhat happy with Ekiga... > Though it doesn't have direct support for PA, ALSA default works and > placing pulse redirection into asound.conf does the trick. Personally, in my case, 1) ratio of acquaintances on Skype as opposed to some Ekiga-supported network/protocol, and 2) (here, I have to be honest) hardware works more on average with Skype on both Linux and Windows. I have to add that the Skype client is just beautiful and completely written. The audio event clips are well-done, the Skype directory services are well-polished. Skype-to-phone has a nice web interface for replenishing credits, plenty of Skype commercial offerings. Other than the fact that it's a closed-source app, there are actually a ton of reasons to use it. And I haven't looked at Ekiga's source code recently so in my case, it boils down to how well they're supported by people other than myself ... and they (Skype people) seem to be doing a good job recently. -- Richi Plana
