Re: [Linphone-users] ...lost in configuration...

[Simon Morlat]

Some effort is definitely required for easier proxy configuration on the
gtk app.
Something more in line with what we did on android and iphone linphone
versions probably.

Simon


Le jeudi 17 mars 2011 à 13:00 +0100, Liviu Andronic a écrit :
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:54:40 +0100, Custom Processing Unlimited  
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > ok, I have signed up for two different linphone sip accounts... I have  
> > not
> > been able to get linphone setup with either of these accounts on the
> > softphone for Linux, Android or Blackberry... I am at a total loss for
> > figuring out what I'm doing wrong... Could someone PLEASE outline, as  
> > simply
> > as possible, exactly HOW I configure this softphone with its companion  
> > SIP
> > service?  Documentation on configuration is sincerely lacking on the site
> > and I am being endlessly frustrated by this.
> Yup! This just about sums up my first experience with Linphone. :) To  
> configure a SIP account, first make sure that ipv6 is disabled (if you  
> didn't touch it, it's OK). Then enter:
> SIP identity: "sip:address@hidden"
> SIP Proxy: "sip:sip.linphone.org"
> 
> 
> @Simon: Some sort of tutorial or FAQ entry for the desktop version would  
> come very handy to newcomers. Even better, please simplify the process of  
> adding a new SIP account:
> - the "sip:" part is utterly useless since Linphone does only SIP. This  
> helps only to confuse newcomers
> - specifying twice "sip.linphone.org" is also unnecessary. At the very  
> least the SIP Proxy part should be made optional, and clearly labelled so.
> 
> Thus adding a new SIP account in Linphone can be as simple as specifying:
> SIP identity: "address@hidden"
> 
> while the password is being asked later. This is the only info asked in  
> Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator), and I must admit that it's much more  
> intuitive.
> 
> Let me know what you think. Cheers
> Liviu
> 
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