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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Serghei Amelian <serghei@××××.ro> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 21 March 2012 23:28:11 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Serghei Amelian <serghei@××××.ro> wrote: |
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>> > On Wednesday 21 March 2012 23:13:07 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> > [...] |
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>> > |
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>> >> > Is it possible to get skype into this as well? |
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>> >> No, and I don't think it will ever be possible. Skype uses a |
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>> >> proprietary protocol, and (AFAIK), there are not 3rd-party clients for |
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>> >> it. |
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>> > |
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>> > Actually... http://developer.skype.com/public/skypekit |
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>> I had heard about it; but I haven't heard anything about a different |
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>> Linux client for Skype that the one provided by Skype. Do you know |
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>> about any? I would love to have a GTK+ client for Skype (Skype it's |
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>> the only application that I [seldom] use that uses Qt). |
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>> Regards. |
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> Hmm, not exactly. Check this plugin for libpurple (used by Pidgin): |
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> http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/ |
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Ouch, that sucks. You still need Skype running; what I wanted was not |
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to install Qt, not having it "hidden". |
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Now that Skype is owned by Microsoft, I'm pretty sure will never see |
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an independent native 3rd-party client on Linux. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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