 You can download the latest released version of gtalX here (currently version 0.1.0). We are hosted on sourceforge, at this address: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtalx/. Description gtalX is based on the libjingle library
(modified version 0.4.0 at the moment) provided by Google. gtalX GUI is implemented using QT 4. The currently implemented functionalities are:
Planned for the next version:
How to install on (K)Ubuntu To install on ubuntu that has libavcodec53 packaged (in general try this first; 11.04 and 11.10 should work):To install on 32-bit Ubuntu 9.10 or earlier you can try this deb file (old gtalx for old ubuntu) The way to use the deb files: sudo dpkg -i gtalx_<version>_i386.deb # you will get a dependency error after the above line so you'll need to execute this next: To remove this package execute: sudo apt-get remove gtalx How to build & install on most Linux distros 1. Install prerequisites In general you'll need QT4, gcc and probably some other development packages that you need to build binaries on your system. If you want to upgrade to a new version, uninstall the old version first. I collected the dependency packages from Ubuntu, you'll need these libraries. Since you'll need to build gtalx, get development packages (if your distro has separate dev packages). Here is the list: (build-essential) For the ./make script to work properly I also needed the pkg-config package on Ubuntu. If your distro has speex, mediastreamer2 and ortp (see the last 3 items in the above list) you can try what you
get form there, but in general gtalx builds and installs these if your computer does not have them. There can easily be a version conflict here; if you are unsure and you do not use ubuntu, do not install these, let gtalx take care of them. Please make sure that you do not have ortp installed but mediastreamer2 not installed as these 2 are very closely related and mediastreamer2 will not build with versions of ortp that it does not expect. On Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 it is safe to install the libmediastreamer0-dev and libspeexdsp-dev packages, on the rest either install speex, mediastreamer2 and ortp or none of these. In my experience on Slackware 12 you'll simply need to install QT4. 2. Perform the build
If all is ok, after these steps you can execute gtalX by typing gtalx
at the command prompt (or you can start it from the start menu). If you want to uninstall, you should execute the uninstall script as root from the directory where you called ./make install. Actually after you have installed gtalX successfully, you can delete all the source and build files, but please keep the uninstall script. The uninstall script alone will let you uninstall gtalX, you won't need any other files to do that. On Ubuntu instead of the ./make install step you can create a deb package by running Comment: We
test/use gtalX on Kubuntu. If you are using a
different distro and gtalx does not build, or there is another problem,
please let us know. If you have a fix for the problem, we would gladly
and gratefully integrate that fix into the software, but we do not have
the time to test this software on any other distributions. Still, we
surely hope that it will work on more than the one we use. Actually we know that previous versions worked on gentoo, opensuse and fedora as well. Screenshot  How to translate If you have an installed gtalX with our make script, in the /usr/share/gtalx/languagefiles directory you will find a file called Hungarian.txt. Copy that file; the name of the new file should be the English name of the language into which you are going to translate gtalX (e.g. French.txt or German.txt). If you start gtalX in an environment that is different from English, gtalX will load the file automatically. If no such file exists, it will print an error message that you can read if you start it from a console. E.g. language file not found: /usr/bin/../share/gtalx/languagefiles/French.txt Obvoiusly if you want to translate gtalX into French, you need to create a file called French.txt in the above mentioned directory. Once you have copied Hungarian.txt, edit it, and I think it is easy to figure out what is to be done. The second line in Hungarian.txt is: This is a text that will appear in the About dialog; put your own name so that it will be displayed in the About dialog. If you start gtalX from your console, and a translation is missing, gtalX will complain and will tell you which item is missing in its output to the console. Otherwise it will substitute the English phrase for missing translations in the application. If you want to translate on an English system, you can modify gtalX's language if you start it and specify the LANG environment variable, like this (if you enter this into the console, gtalX tries to start in German; since there is no German.txt it fails to do so...): If you have any questions, just send us an email to the address specified in the Contact us section below. If you have a language file we would be happy to get it; please send it to the same email address and we'll include it in the software. Proxy Gtalx does not support connecting via a proxy. But if you need to use a proxy, you can give this a chance; haven't tried it myself. Soundcard The reason I have added the soundcard selection opportunity is that on PCs with HDMI cards the auto algorithm tries to use the HDMI card and then would fail. In general the algorithm implemented in libjingle (or rather in one of the underlying libraries) is to use the first card that _appears_ usable and if it fails then give up. HDMI cards report recording and playback capabilities, but mediastreamer cannot use them. Now we can override this algorithm and we can select a card manually. In general HDMI cards do not appear to be working so select one that does not have HDMI in its name. Do not forget to restart gtalx after you have modified this setting. Contact us The authors of gtalX are: Erika Bekes, Oliver Leahy and Jozsef Bekes. If you want to contact us, you can send us an email to bjdodo at hotmail dot com. Licensing Since this is the first open-source application we have written, we might not have done everything as required. If you find that we are breaking the copyright or any other law in any way, please let us know and we'll do the best to correct the mistakes. We would like to give this code to the open-source community, and we would like to offer this application to all Linux users, but we do not want anyone to be able to sell our code, or make any money from it, so our intention is to place this software under GPL3. This
program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.  |
