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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.

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-==The plan==
+{{:KTp/Header}}
+== Dependency hell ==
-* The current code is wrong by design, needs to be replaced.
+* 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.
-* Build a simple Qt library that exports the whole call application logic with a QML-izable interface, using QtGStreamer/farsight/farsight utils/telepathy-qt4.
+* qt-gstreamer:
+** Provides Qt bindings for GStreamer
+** http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/qt-gstreamer
+** Required version: >= 0.10.2
-* Build a GUI that possibly consists of a standard KXmlGuiWindow that embeds a QDeclarativeView, which implements the call GUI.
+* 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
-===Blockers===
+* telepathy-farstream:
+** Provides the glue between telepathy CMs and farstream.
+** http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-farstream/
+** Required version: >= 0.2.2
-* Needs the telepathy Call spec to become usable.
+* telepathy-gabble:
-* Needs farsight utils to be merged in farsight.
+** XMPP connection manager
-* Needs telepathy-qt4 to export interfaces for the Call spec.
+** http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-gabble/
-* Needs a QML video widget in QtGStreamer.
+** 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]