529004 – net-im/venom - A Vala/Gtk+ graphical user interface for Tox

Bug 529004 - net-im/venom - A Vala/Gtk+ graphical user interface for Tox

Summary: net-im/venom - A Vala/Gtk+ graphical user interface for Tox

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages

URL:	https://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom
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Depends on:	478874
Blocks:
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Reported:	2014-11-12 06:30 UTC by Dennis Schridde
Modified:	2015-03-23 13:41 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

See Also:	478874
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Description Dennis Schridde 2014-11-12 06:30:56 UTC

Would be great to have an ebuild for the Venom Tox client: https://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom
The published releases are extremely old and outdated, though. Upstream creates binaries from snapshots of unmarked revisions: https://wiki.tox.im/Binaries

Comment 1 Dennis Schridde 2014-11-12 06:59:57 UTC

P.S: Venom works reasonably well now and is quite stable. It is able to run video calls where SIP based tools or Skype fail due to firewalls, even though the image quality is worse than with µTox. It's UI is far better than that of µTox (it has better looks and features like mimise-to-systray or local contact name aliases). Video calling is incompatible with µTox at the moment.

Comment 2 Nick Hovaker 2015-03-23 13:41:19 UTC

I hate to say this, but development on Venom has ceased. We recommend that users instead use qTox or uTox as a Tox client; both of which are available in our official Gentoo Overlay at https://github.com/Tox/gentoo-overlay-tox.