Useless Gmail Video Chat

[conta]

i just read artcile : http://www.osnews.com/story/23707/[b]Gm ... s_to_Linux[/b]

http://www.google.com/chat/video

but what i see?

Unfortunately Google voice and video chat is not available for PowerPC Macs.

lol? i am not on PowerPC

[damNageHack]

Unfortunately, Google is providing only a deb package currently.
You can unpack it and copy the files over to the right places.
Archlinux User Repository has already a build script to transfer the deb file to an arch package. Maybe someone can adapt that script for salix/slackware?
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/googl ... n/PKGBUILD

[lighans]

http://slackblogs.blogspot.com/2010/08/ ... kware.html

should that work with Salix?

[gapan]

http://slackblogs.blogspot.com/2010/08/ ... kware.html

should that work with Salix?

Haven't tried it, but if it works in slackware, it should work in salix.

[ray]

Just tried the slackbuild, works fine on Salix.
And, it works with Midori too.

@gapan,
Too much to ask for adding it as default in Salix?
The pidgin build that comes with Salix doesnt support video chat(i presume this is a slackware direct package) and this plugin would be a nice touch to out of the box experience.

[thenktor]

OK, didn't read anything about it, but: Is this Google Talk only or usable with other Jabber services, too?

[damNageHack]

Redistribution of the package seems to have at least one problem ...

10. License from Google

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10.2 You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google, in writing.

10.3 Unless Google has given you specific written permission to do so, you may not assign (or grant a sub-license of) your rights to use the Software, grant a security interest in or over your rights to use the Software, or otherwise transfer any part of your rights to use the Software.

12. Software updates

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see http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS?hl=de

OK, didn't read anything about it, but: Is this Google Talk only or usable with other Jabber services, too?

AFAIK, it is XMPP based. But Google uses some own additions. I understand this thread as a request for the original google client as a plugin for browser.

[thenktor]

AFAIK, it is XMPP based. But Google uses some own additions. I understand this thread as a request for the original google client as a plugin for browser.

IIRC a XEP (xmpp extension?) was planned for audio/video, but google did something on their own... So no real idea.
But I don't see why we should add a google only video service to the ISO.

[ray]

I only asked for it because the pidgin build disables video/audio.

I think this is because we use the build from slackware. Can we ask for Salix to build pidgin with video seperately?

[gapan]

There is a thread in this forum about pidgin with video/audio support. Search for it. I find it very unstable and slackware is right for not including support for it by default.

Also, there is no chance this will be included in the repos.