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== 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==

* [http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/asoliver/kde-telepathy-callhandler/ Alvaro's mockup]
* [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629902 empathy's new call UI mockup]