The Best VoIP Client?

[AjTee]

Hi,

What is the best VoIP client for Kubuntu?

J.K

[blackpaw]

They pretty much all suck.

[AjTee]

What about Yate?

[Teunis]

I am using Yate.
For me it's OK, very basic, just works.

In the past I used Twinkle but development stopped and it no longer works.

[GreyGeek]

Google Talk works. And if you have a webcam Google's Hangout is neat.
My personal experience is that Ekiga does not work well, as usual. Skype works fine. If you want only voice or don't have a webcam just disable the camera. But, it's one on one and it's connected to a spy network.

A VoIP that a lot of people over look is Mumble, if all you want is an excellent voice connection to anyone on the planet who has access to a computer and can install Mumble. Several people can join in by logging into the same channel. My grandsons and I use it to communicate when we are playing Minecraft. You can create your own Mumble server so that only you and your friends can join a channel. It's all free. If you encrypt your ports...

[Teunis]

Ah yes Mumble, and there is an Android version too

[SteveRiley]

They pretty much all suck.

Alas, this is the truth.

SFLphone (with the KDE UI from their PPA) is the best-looking KDE client. Alas, my company's Avaya PBX refuses to acknolwedge DTMF after dialing. Without this, I cannot participate in conference calls, a major part of my job. Thus, I can't use this.

Yate kind of works, but every time I install it, something doesn't work right and I end up removing it. The details escape me.

Twinkle is a KDE3 application and is now so old it simply won't work on KDE4 anymore.

The SIP parts of Telepathy-KDE simply fail to work with the aforementioned Avaya PBX. I can't seem to coax the thing to generate any log files.

I've settled on Ekiga -- a Gtk app. I hate it, but it works reliably.