[Pidgin] #34: Voice/video support

[Pidgin]

#34: Voice/video support
--------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
  Reporter:  MarkDoliner  |       Owner:  seanegan
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:          
 Component:  libpurple    |     Version:          
Resolution:               |    Keywords:          
   Pending:  0            |  
--------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
Comment (by mpathy):

 Replying to [comment:16 seanegan]:
 > You just hit the nail on the head. I don't know anyone who's ever
 actually used or wanted to use a webcam.

 I know many people - there was a time not long ago, where not so much
 webcams where supported in linux - right now, all of the low-budget webcam
 which are sharing the same 1 or 2 driver(s) are supported. Its easy as
 plugin in and perhaps do some color correction stuff in the Kopete dialog,
 but that's it. Easy to use, for the user which using it the most - the
 simple user, without technical background, who wants to keep contact with
 their friends like they did @ Windows. And of those you getting more. They
 wanna use the key features who were provided by their operating systems,
 if its Windows or OS X.

 As I explained, that it is really the problem that you guys developing it,
 doesn't use one, and also the people you get in contact with. Perhaps
 because of different general lifestyles or something, but that doesnt mean
 that a big group of people using it altough. And especially the young
 generation, the teenagers of today - here in germany I barely know someone
 (especially on the girls side, but it doesnt matter much) who doesnt own
 and use one. So perhaps its a regional trend, but such countries like
 germany, switzerland, austria and france are not soo little countries.

 If Skype @ Linux also put their webcam support from the windows version
 also to the linux version, and Kopete improves its general crashiness,
 Pidgin will stand relatively on their own - but not in a positive way.
 (People mostly using Skype or Yahoo or MSN for web cam chats.)

 You dont know anybody who owns a webcam? As hiddensanctum says, pretty
 much are built into laptops - and people buying a pc often get one for
 free, as an extra, because a mic and a webcam are extras who doesnt cost
 them much.

 As I said, when I talk with people and finding out they want to do such
 stuff I tell them to use Kopete (most of the time I say also KDE, to avoid
 some hassle) before having to tell them, "well, Pidgin is a fine stable
 program, but if someone asks you to webcam - what you won't see because
 Pidgin doesn't even display a message that someone is trying to do webcam
 with you - you have to log out and log in with Kopete.."! I hope its clear
 what I am trying to tell you.

 What was the joke with the MMORPG about? Looks like you people didn't get
 the point. It must be some gnome-related stuff that I don't get answers in
 a serious and aware way.

 Like with GIMP - they don't want to build in CYMK support because of such
 stuff like "I doesnt use it - nobody uses it" or "We have some kind of
 workaround" or "It isnt this important" - and the opponent, Krita, has it
 in from the beginning. So once it is more mature and stable, people who
 dont only do RGB pictures for the internet, but want to do print related
 stuff switching to that.

 So Gnome will end up some day as "linux desktop for geeks" and KDE as the
 "linux desktop for the normal and productive user" Perhaps its something
 who is wished but it shouldnt be.

-- 
Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/34#comment:24>
Pidgin <http://pidgin.im>
Pidgin