Telepathy's proclaimed "Video Support" unusable

[ManDay]

It says in various places over the net that kde-telepathy is supposed to support Video Chat, but this is practically unusable to any but the most advanced linux users, and even then, only after a lot of research. For various reasons:

* There is no information about how to use Video and Audio - it just says "Video and Audio". Nowhere is actually said for which protocol, whatsoever

* Even if you believe that said support is for, say, Google Talk, there is still no evidence of any such capability but the permanently grayed out options "Video Call" and "Audio Call", which, considering how this eventually turned out, is absolutely idiotic to be provided as grayed out in the first place.

* With a lot of research and, moreover, luck, I was eventually able to determine that "kde-telepathy-call-ui" is required to provide such functionality. In MUON package manager, the description of latter package paradoxically claims that one should instead use the "kde-telepathy" meta package, which, however, was already installed and did not pull call-ui in.

* Installing Call-UI then eventually provides said functionality, though still with a few problems (which, however, are bugs for upstream and not for the (K)Ubuntu tracker.

Bottom line: Not only should call-ui be a hard dependency of telepathy, but also these things should be clearly documented for normal users.

[Kenny Fairweather (kenny1)]

Thanks for the hint ManDay. I used to have this package, but I guess was removed during the update to kde4.10 beta 3 (4.9.98)