KDE has no integrated multi protocol voip client like Ubuntu, kopete just does not do webcam and voice and has serious issues with getting webcam and voice working
Google Gitso does reverse VNC, so the supporter has to deal with NAT and Firewall, not the person who needs help..
http://code.google.com/p/gitso/
It uses x11vnc and vncviewer!
I propose to develop a plugin for kopete that does the same thing.
You would have to click on a nickname and say "give support" and the other person clicks on your nickname and says "get support" thats it.
its easy.. just one line of code on every side, accessable over kopetes gui:
We have quite a lot of possibilities to get our webcams to work (like cheese, VLC, kopete and more). Also, there are quite a lot of instant messengers out there, like aMSN, pidgin, eva. They all support one or more different protocols, only a few of them support QQ, the most popular IM protocol in China (for example eva, pidgin and the new QQ messenger for Linux by Tencent, the inventor of the protocol). Some of them don't have webcam support (for example eva, pidgin and the new QQ messenger for Linux), others do (like kopete ...).
However, I could not find a single working solution to have a webcam chat using QQ protocol. So either use another messenger (and be unable to contact your QQ buddies) or talk to your friends (and be unable to see them). OK, QQ is not very popular outside China, but even if not all of the 1.3 billion Chinese use webcams, I think there are still quite a lot of people interested in this feature.
I think it would be better to have an IM protocol that has these requirements.
When logging on from a different machine, both machines can be used at the same time for IM. So I could be logged on to an account from 2 places, and the messages would be received both places. So the other clients would have in their IP_to send list both locations.
Also simple encryption available.
File moving available (file size limit options).
Current IM standards should be realized.
Wouldn't that be cool to add to kopote , something that is better?