The next version of Ubuntu keeps telling us new surprises and changes. One of those changes will prove quite useful for Ubuntu users in the corporate world. Thus, from the Ubuntu team, they have indicated that Ubuntu 17.10 will silence all the audio that we are using to receive VoIP calls.
This utility is offered thanks to a PulseAudio plug-in, a plug-in that has been in PulseAudio for years but Ubuntu didn't use it due to problems with Skype. Now that Skype is in the doldrums, it seems Ubuntu will drop it and enable this feature.Cork's main problem, the PulseAudio plugin, I was with Skype, a problem that seems to have been solved by leaving Skype aside. Still the developers are asking the Community to use Cork to report some other bug or conflict with some other program. At the moment there has been nothing serious, which means that Cork will continue on Ubuntu 17.10 and therefore Ubuntu will turn off the sound of music, movies or YouTube when we receive a VoIP call.
Skype, still with problems, is still used by many users
The truth is that the fall of Skype is not as high-profile as they claim and many users still use it as a VoIP application, so it seems that the future version of Ubuntu, in addition to being novel and interesting, will also be problematic for many users. Although thanks to the Community, surely someone will resume development of that Ubuntu patch that blocked Cork and it will allow us to use Skype in our Ubuntu.
Personally I find the function very interesting and possibly Ubuntu should have made Skype work fine with PulseAudio instead of blocking the problem, it would be more practical for users and future versions of Ubuntu Do not you think?
Keep in mind that version 5 of Skype for Linux uses a completely different technology (it is a web app) so you have to see if the problem is still valid
could include pre-installed telegram as an alternative
Telegram seems great to me, I have it on the iPhone, and in my ubuntu it works fine! It is light, consumes little, and also beautiful.
It seems a lie but skype turns out that people are stopping using I don't know why
This news is great so a new and better technology can emerge from programmers, that is, a future millionaire idea!
But telegram you can't make video calls of that quality
rather skype turned its back on linux (it's from microsoft): v
For an alternative to Skype there is the Ring oh Jitsi applications, and qTox as well, for alternatives to WhatsApp there is Signal Private Messenger which is safe and also serves to make video calls.
as long as it manages to repair the failure in the monitor configuration and is not changing the screen resolution when it pleases as it does on 17,04 ... I would settle for it.