skype on XO-1.75

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Chris Leonard
> <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some folks from RIT have already Sugarized something (not that I've ever
>> tried it) I also have no idea whether it would work on an XO 1.75
>>
>> Open Video Chat 1
>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4305
>
> It seems like it's early days for that app. No updates for over a year
> (are they working on it?), no STUN or anything to get out of a NAT
> trap. No interop with other tools mentioned.
>
> Peter clarified in a private email that current Gnome uses Telepathy
> to interop with various other tools (gchat, msn), and apparently can
> do voice + video. This exists today, and has a reasonably mature
> codebase... that is in use in Sugar too.

FAQ here https://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#Audio_and_Video_calls

Peter