Skype account

[David Edmundson]

Works as far as I know.
Make sure you have teleapthy-haze and pidgin-skype installed.

Dave

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Störm Poorun <subs at olan.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Adding Skype as a partly-supported service would massively widen Telepathy's
> audience. 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I note that last year, Florian Reinhard committed bigbrownchunkx-skype-dbus
> to the haze plugin. http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-03-06/
>
> Please could someone who  knows comment as to progress, if any, else what is
> needed to progress the issue.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> --
> Störm
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