Okay, so I don't actually use Skype, and my experiments with voice calls
are so far limited to Linphone, and not much of that. I don't need much.
(Linphone seems to work pretty well, but I haven't done much more than
to install it on my home computers, as well as my phone.) As far as I
know, Linphone also supports video calls; I don't think it can make
calls to other clients such as Skype. It can make calls to landlines,
cellular phones, etc., but only buy purchasing a special account.
I do use Psi-Plus, however, which so far I have liked better than any
other
xmpp/jabber or other chat client, ever; better than Kopete, Pidgin, and
a few
others that I've tried.
Thanks Bill. I will look into those. It is important to mention, as has
been reported here and I just found out, that skype will be "killed" on
May 5. So there is no requirement that any application would work with
skype. Good to know about linphone as a pay voice over IP. I often call
Europe and international calls are expensive with US plans.
Best,
Gianluca
On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
On Sunday 02 March 2025 13:37:09 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
On Sunday 02 March 2025 22:06:22 blu.256 via tde-users wrote:
Hello all,
I haven't followed the whole thread but on the topic of MS Teams I
remember there is also a Pidgin (libpurple) protocol plugin that supports
it, otherwise one can use the official online client from the browser
without problem.
--
Philippe MAVRIDIS
Depending what you want to / have to do with Teams, fi you're using a
Debian based distribution, Microsofts "Teams Preview" still woks (at least
as far as Debian 11) and had a *.deb package (no more online, but I stll
have it).
Thierry
Sorry to crash this party ... but if there were ever an off-topic topic that I
might want to crash, this off-topic topic would be it. (Just had to put that
bit in, as this is one of our wilder and weirder threads.)
Okay, so I don't actually use Skype, and my experiments with voice calls are
so far limited to Linphone, and not much of that. I don't need much.
(Linphone seems to work pretty well, but I haven't done much more than to
install it on my home computers, as well as my phone.) As far as I know,
Linphone also supports video calls; I don't think it can make calls to other
clients such as Skype. It can make calls to landlines, cellular phones, etc.,
but only buy purchasing a special account.
I do use Psi-Plus, however, which so far I have liked better than any other
xmpp/jabber or other chat client, ever; better than Kopete, Pidgin, and a few
others that I've tried.
When I read that another person recommended using Skype via Pidgin, it occured
to me that Psi-Plus (or Psi+) probably supports Skype, or at least audio and
video calls; and sure enough, it does.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://appmus.com/vs/psi--vs-skype__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!gIvMV_joUfa3ClRcFeabgwIquYQzD7zlTlkVFWXj6_NKg8QeffE_6CfiE8FYVfrNy7Z1Ncmd2kMWC_ZSpdrHLshQ81I$
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi_*28instant_messaging_client*29__;JSU!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!gIvMV_joUfa3ClRcFeabgwIquYQzD7zlTlkVFWXj6_NKg8QeffE_6CfiE8FYVfrNy7Z1Ncmd2kMWC_ZSpdrHenl7G-c$
As for how, and how well it does it, I don't know. I used to chat online a
lot, but these days I rarely come out from under my rock, except for food and
books, and even my online activity is almost reduced to the Trinity mailing
list. So I haven't explored the possibilities here. I am only saying that I
am very impressed with Psi-Plus, and have only explored a little of its
capabilities, but it seems much farther advanced than similar applications.
If anybody would like to try it out with me, just for testing purposes, or
because they are bored, I have several xmpp/jabber IDs, but no longer much
reason to use chat.
Bill
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