[Kde-extra-gear] Kopete-Skype dieing out, how to remove

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello,

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:56:58PM +0100, ssuuddoo wrote:
> I have an idea.
> why do people strike to make a plugin for skype to be included in kopete
> or gaim? Why do not make a plugin that just communicates with an installed
> skype and just transfers the messages from it and to it?
> 
> For example in windows, I used to have Miranda IM and had the skype plugin  
> in it
> to have all the contacts in one list, but the skype plugin in miranda does  
> not work
> without the original SKYPE program, so it does not have to bother with the  
> skype communication
> policy or the structure of the used protocols, it just has to make a new  
> "virtual" client
> for the IM program that takes the skype contacts from an existing skype  
> installation
> and puts them in the contact list of kopete or gaim. Wouldnt it be easier  
> to have skype
> in these IM programs using this method?

The same with Kopete. There is just another protocol to talk to the
running Skype. You need that one. And they use 2 - dbus, which they have
terribly outdated, and X11 messages that did not exist in the time the
thing was written and nobody ported the plugin to it yet.

If you want, feel free to port it…

With regards

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Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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