<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Skype, at minimum accessing IM messages and contacts, is a fundamental IM use for many users. Without it any IM services are of little use to them. Due to family and friends overseas, this includes me alas.<br><br>Adding Skype as a partly-supported service would massively widen Telepathy's audience. <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">It's preferable to have Skype and all services running through a common interface, for example to keep all history logs in one place, and communicate with contacts (using meta-contacts) in a protocol-neutral manner. Most users are most interested in communicating than the protocol they are using to type a text message. Most don't wish to have to use two or more interfaces, it's hard enough tracking via various devices.<br><br>At present, Skype is working with Kopete and Pidgin, albeit with Skype running simultaeously in the background, that's hugely better than not having it at all imho.<br><br>I've tried unsuccessfully to add a Skype account in Telepathy-KDE, but to no avail. I've added SkypePidgin, and the various dependencies, including libpurple.</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I note that last year, Florian Reinhard committed bigbrownchunkx-skype-dbus to the haze plugin. </font><a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-03-06/" target="_blank">http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-03-06/</a><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; "></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br>Please could someone who knows comment as to progress, if any, else what is needed to progress the issue.<br><br>Many thanks.<br></font><br><div id="454283ca-1e36-4817-a15d-67e7dace52e6" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">--</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Störm<span style="white-space:pre"></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>