Re: [gentoo-desktop] Gnome 3 instant messaging

[Serghei Amelian]

On Wednesday 21 March 2012 23:28:11 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Serghei Amelian <serghei@××××.ro> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 March 2012 23:13:07 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> > Is it possible to get skype into this as well?
> >>
> >> No, and I don't think it will ever be possible. Skype uses a
> >> proprietary protocol, and (AFAIK), there are not 3rd-party clients for
> >> it.
> >
> > Actually... http://developer.skype.com/public/skypekit
>
> I had heard about it; but I haven't heard anything about a different
> Linux client for Skype that the one provided by Skype. Do you know
> about any? I would love to have a GTK+ client for Skype (Skype it's
> the only application that I [seldom] use that uses Qt).
>
> Regards.

Hmm, not exactly. Check this plugin for libpurple (used by Pidgin): 
http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/

-- 
Serghei