KTp/Components/Call UI

Welcome to the KDE Telepathy Development Wiki Current Version: 23.07.70

KDE Telepathy  Mostly written in C++  Mature, well-established codebase  Well-commented source code  Small development team  Decreasing Y-O-Y development activity  2 active contributors Commit Activity Timeline: more at  Updated Feb 22, 2024

Dependency hell

• telepathy-qt:
  • Provides Qt high level api to telepathy.
  • http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-qt/
  • Required version: >= 0.9.1
  • Note: This must be built with farstream support, so before building it make sure you have farstream, telepathy-farstream, telepathy-glib and gstreamer (core and base plugins) installed.

• qt-gstreamer:
  • Provides Qt bindings for GStreamer
  • http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/qt-gstreamer
  • Required version: >= 0.10.2

• farstream:
  • This is the library and gstreamer elements that do the actual media streaming.
  • http://cgit.collabora.com/git/farstream.git/
  • Required version: >= 0.1.0

• telepathy-farstream:
  • Provides the glue between telepathy CMs and farstream.
  • http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-farstream/
  • Required version: >= 0.2.2

• telepathy-gabble:
  • XMPP connection manager
  • http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-gabble/
  • Required version: >= 0.15.4

• ktp-contact-list and/or ktp-text-ui and/or ktp-contact-applet
  • Provide the buttons to start audio/video calls :P
  • Required version: git master (unreleased 0.4)

Other Troubleshooting

If you have farsight installed, it won't work. Remove it.

Farstream has to be installed to a location detectable by gstreamer (in my case /usr/)

Start the call-ui manually with --debug --persist to get helpful info.

GUI Ideas

• Alvaro's mockup
• empathy's new call UI mockup