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Review : Ekiga

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2006-07-15 17:21. Ekiga
Ekiga

The Truth

Ekiga is a mature program that successfully does the job. It doesn't have alot of fancy features but it has all the useful stuff. A PC-to-Phone Account can be created and I think this should sponsor the project enough to keep it updated. Considering also the large availability of other similar software I can say that this software does pretty well and it's on the top of my list, performing better than Linphone and kphone.
Review Ekiga 2.0

Great technology, ...

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Tue, 2006-07-18 13:05.

...but the UI sucks. Who wants a tabbed UI in the main interface of his phone? Weird buttons, the strange protocol names that are exposed to the user, ... I don't want to know. I just want to call a friend. The main window does not even seem to attempt to follow the HIG. Also, this application could do with half as many dialogs, and the preferences window is cluttered with hundreds of unnecessary options.

In short, it looks like a KDE application. I would love something simple in the GNOME spirit. Anyone up to it? Ideally it could be integrated into an existing communication tool, like Gaim or Gossip.

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