Twinkle softphone replacement?

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Januszzz · Post by **Januszzz** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:02 am

Hi,

I was using Twinkle several years and now its unsupported anymore as it requires QT3. Is there any vital replacement for it?

I would love to have basic voice functionality, a tray icon, the rest is not so important.

Thanks, Janusz.

Princess Nell · Post by **Princess Nell** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:57 pm

Same situation here. I've started using linphone, but haven't actually used it yet for more than test calls to echo servers.

lxg · Post by **lxg** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:57 pm

I must admit that I don't know exactly what Twinkle does in detail. If you insist on using SIP, you might have a look at Ekiga, AFAIK it can be used as a SIP softphone.

However, my preferred VoIP solution these days is Jabber (XMPP), and Empathy as a client on Linux systems. It even supports video chat.

It works very well “out-of-the-box” i.e. after emerge – given of course that your webcam and sound in/out already work. If your conversation partners are on Windows, they might try Pidgin for XMMP voice and video.

SamuliSuominen · Post by **SamuliSuominen** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:12 pm

twinkle is still in kde-sunset overlay...

(I'm just saying, not recommending it... It's a graveyard of bad quality software & ebuilds