[kde-linux] Re: Skype management?

[Duncan]

Mark Knecht posted on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:37:23 -0700 as excerpted:

>    Does KDE provide any good way of managing a Skype account? On a
> whim I bought a year's worth of unlimited U.S. calls along with a Skype
> phone number. I'd like my PC to answer calls, manage phone numbers &
> contacts, etc.
> 
>    If it's not specifically handled within KDE please feel free to
> recommend any good apps. I'm Gentoo based if it makes any difference.

IIRC, there's a number of skype helper plasmoids available on kde-look.org, 
as well as a skype-related service menu (think dolphin/konqueror context 
menu) or two.

As I won't/can't run proprietary on my computer (I can't agree to the eulas 
or waive damage rights for an app that after all is black-box, its authors 
already demonstrated not to respect the user's basic software freedoms, 
which I demand, so by what insanity would I be persuaded to trust them 
enough to waive damage rights when what they're offering is from my 
perspective already anti-freedom malware?), I naturally won't run the 
proprietary skype, so I rather quickly skip over anything skype-related, 
and thus can't supply a lot of detail, but I do remember the act of seeing 
and quickly rejecting and skipping over I believe several such tools, 
available to those interested in running them, when I was last browsing 
for interesting "Get hot new stuff!" =:^)

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