Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Interest for GM 2.00

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 à 23:56 +0000, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> Hi Damien et. al.
> 
> Damien Sandras wrote:
> > GnomeMeeting was the first "easy-to-use" multi-platform softphone. I
> > insist on the "multi-platform" aspect, as the code is portable.
> > (However, nobody is maintaining the MacOSX port, nobody is maintaining
> > the FreeBSD port, and we have to do the WIN32 port ourselves (thanks
> > Julien)).
> 
> Just to share my own personal experience. I've relatively setup our 
> office (there are about 6 of us on site with a few satalites), with 
> Asterisk. As we work on a very tight budget, we could not afford to 
> purchase hardware SIP phones for everyone, but as we all work on 
> computers my intention was to give everyone softphones. I assumed it 
> would be easy but it was much harder than I thought. While I initially 
> played with IAX we got serious issues with audio lag, and it just 
> wouldn't shift - defo something at *'s end, but who knows what.
> 
> Anyways, I had success with SIP but none of the SIP clients I tried were 
> stable or offered features like line transfers etc. I tried *lots* of 
> Linux SIP soft phones but none were any good. I finally found the GM2.0 
> snapshots and thought I'd take it for a whirl. It's been stable as a 
> rock since despite being snapshot releases!!!!
> 

Thanks !!!!

> I am genuinely excited about the Win32 version too as I am currently 
> forced to use SIPPs (a demo version) which is slow, buggy and 
> rubbish.... GM would be much better :)
> 
> FWIW the one feature I miss in GM is multiple line support. Multiple 
> lines would allow a Managed Transfer feature which would be ace. e.g. 
> Incomming call -> Operation -> *Hold* + Call real recipient -> "I have a 
> call from Mr So and so - Yes, put him through." -> Unhold+transfer :)
> 

Yes, it is foreseen in 2.2. I won't have time to do it for 2.00
unfortunately. But I agree it is an important missing feature. And that
is the kind of things you will never find in any other soft like gaim or
wengo, or skype...

> 
> The above said, I use GAIM a lot for my MSN/Jabber accounts and one of 
> the SIP solutions I looked at prior to settling on GM was the 
> Lindows/Linspire GAIM hack that supports SIP. It was a non-starter 
> really, but I do have to admit I do like the of having GAIM do my phone 
> as well as my IM etc. I do like GM, so please don't take this the wrong 
> way, but I think this is the kind of feedback you are probably expecting 
> too....
> 
> Opal does indeed seem like a very good library (tho' not looked at it as 
> a dev) and there is perhaps an oportunity to integrate this into 
> Gaim/Kopete or similar? Perhaps that could be a potential post 2.0 
> project if you do decide to slow down GM development?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> As a side note, I very rarely use USB keys. I generally keep everything 
> (email, contacts, calendar, files etc.) online on my home server. But on 
> the odd occasion when I do find myself at someone elses windows PC, a 
> really neat feature would be if I could just stick in a USB key and run 
> GM and/or Gaim and have my settings all stored on the USB. Without ANY 
> setup, I've got my instant messaging and my phone system. OK, I know 
> that audio devices would have to be somehow guessed/or prompted for due 
> to different hardware etc. but that would be very, very useful.
> 
> Even for ppl moving round large companies it could be quite useful (I 
> know most corporate VOIP solutions allow you to easily log in to any 
> hard phone in the building whereever you are - and I guess the above is 
> a similar concept.
> 
> Just a passing thought.
> 
> Col.
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