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Send and receive SMS from within Ubuntu  
Written by josteinaj the 24 Jan 10 at 14:04. New
When I'm traveling, I use my Android phone to connect to the Internet. I chat on my computer and send/receive SMS on my phone.
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Solution #1: Add SMS-functionality to Empathy or Ekiga
Written by josteinaj the 24 Jan 10 at 14:04.
It would be brilliant if I could receive and send SMS directly from either Empathy/Telepathy or Ekiga.

It would probably be easiest to implement for Android phones, although it shouldn't be restricted to that platform.
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Solution #2: Develop mobile messaging application
Written by beruic the 6 Dec 11 at 10:41.
This could possibly be achieved by making a simple general GUI for, for which the makers of the phone OS can make a plugin.

The reason for not using Empathy or Ekiga, is that management of messages is possibly not easily integrated into those (e.g. deleting of messages, however these tasks might be performed from the account views of Empathy or Ekiga).

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Ekiga not compatible with other protocols  
Written by sanketmedhi the 4 Apr 09 at 07:59. New
Currently, we have no out-of-the-box application for IM, voice and video in Ubuntu. I have been waiting forever for Gaim/Pidgin to build voice/video support.

Instead of adding new functionality to applications that support several protocols, we should add protocol support to applications that already have all essential functionality.

Ekiga is one application with all text, voice and video support built into it. But it is not compatible with popular protocols like Yahoo, Google and MSN. There are ways to use video/voice with people using these protocols/messengers, but the procedure is too tedious especially for new users. Its not a solution at all, its only a work-around.
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Solution #1: Make Ekiga compatible with protocols such as Yahoo/MSN/Google
Written by sanketmedhi the 4 Apr 09 at 07:59.
Self-explanatory.
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Solution #2: Telepathy
Written by cheesehead the 4 Apr 09 at 13:09.
The Telepathy framework (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Telepathy ) is already intended to resolve lots of nagging incompatibilities between IM, Video Chat, SIP, and other applications and formats. Try it in Jaunty!

It replaces the standalone apps (Ekiga, Pidgin) with a group of widgets tied together by DBus. So you'll have one IM widget and one videochat widget and one addressbook widget (etc.), and the background widgets and libraries speak all the protocols and seamlessly exchange data, and pop open all/only the features your protocol supports. So you'll finally get MSN and Yahoo videochat without -say- extra SIP baggage like softphone dialpads.
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Solution #3: Voice and video support in Pidgin
Written by danielrmt the 10 Apr 09 at 10:51.
"Video and voice chat has probably been the most requested Pidgin feature over the past five years." (quoted from http://blog.caseyho.com/2009/04/voice-video.html , it's an april's fool joke)
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Solution #4: Incorporate Telepathy's voice/video functionality into Pidgin
Written by sanketmedhi the 4 May 09 at 12:25.
Extension of Solution #2. Pidgin is far better and has many useful functionality. It makes more sense for Pidgin to incorporate Empathy's voice/video support. In short, don't try to make in Empathy what is already present in Pidgin. The teams working on Telepathy and Pidgin can work together to incorporate voice/video support in Pidgin.

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Video Conferencing is Not Simple  
Written by Thelasko the 3 Mar 09 at 21:51. New
When a user switches to Ubuntu he/she still wants to keep in touch with friends that still use Windows. However, many video and voice over IP services are either unsupported, or difficult to setup in Ubuntu. Even though Ekiga is installed by default. It's unrealistic for a new Ubuntu user to ask his/her friends to switch services to keep in touch. Ubuntu should support common existing protocols by default.

Currently, the only such service Ubuntu supports is Skype.
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Solution #1: Work With Ekiga to Support More Services
Written by Thelasko the 3 Mar 09 at 21:51.
Ekiga already has video and voice capabilities, we should work with them to develop support for more services.
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Solution #2: Work With Pidgin to Support Voice and Video
Written by Thelasko the 3 Mar 09 at 21:54.
Pidgin is currently working to implement these protocols. The Ubuntu community should work closely with Pidgin to expedite this development.
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Solution #3: Work with Emapthy which already supports Voice and Video
Written by hemanth.hm the 9 Mar 09 at 02:47.
As in title , but why not pidgin ?
Have a look at the comparison :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmpathyVsPidginUsability

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Voicemail for Ekiga Softphone  
Written by deadowl the 25 Jun 08 at 17:15. New
I'd honestly just want the option of having voicemail through VoIP already on my computer rather than have to forward it to a WAN server or a local server that's incredibly difficult to configure.

It would be nice to have software that could be used as a primary voice communications tool between myself and other people that use the same software. I mean, really, if it's being installed by default, Ekiga really ought to come with this kind of feature.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #10295
Written by deadowl the 25 Jun 08 at 17:15.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #10295 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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