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From: - - <tracsler@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Reggia: [gentoo-desktop] Gnome 3 instant messaging
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:06:02
Message-Id: CAFjzYTS3G_RhNF6N5kx+jo_ZawcX_bnU8Zw2W47GxskJMT2JVQ@mail.gmail.com
1 skype-open-source.blogspot.com/
2 Il giorno 21/mar/2012 22:52, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com> ha
3 scritto:
4
5 > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Serghei Amelian <serghei@××××.ro> wrote:
6 > > On Wednesday 21 March 2012 23:28:11 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
7 > >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Serghei Amelian <serghei@××××.ro>
8 > wrote:
9 > >> > On Wednesday 21 March 2012 23:13:07 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
10 > >> > [...]
11 > >> >
12 > >> >> > Is it possible to get skype into this as well?
13 > >> >>
14 > >> >> No, and I don't think it will ever be possible. Skype uses a
15 > >> >> proprietary protocol, and (AFAIK), there are not 3rd-party clients
16 > for
17 > >> >> it.
18 > >> >
19 > >> > Actually... http://developer.skype.com/public/skypekit
20 > >>
21 > >> I had heard about it; but I haven't heard anything about a different
22 > >> Linux client for Skype that the one provided by Skype. Do you know
23 > >> about any? I would love to have a GTK+ client for Skype (Skype it's
24 > >> the only application that I [seldom] use that uses Qt).
25 > >>
26 > >> Regards.
27 > >
28 > > Hmm, not exactly. Check this plugin for libpurple (used by Pidgin):
29 > > http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/
30 >
31 > Ouch, that sucks. You still need Skype running; what I wanted was not
32 > to install Qt, not having it "hidden".
33 >
34 > Now that Skype is owned by Microsoft, I'm pretty sure will never see
35 > an independent native 3rd-party client on Linux.
36 >
37 > Regards.
38 > --
39 > Canek Peláez Valdés
40 > Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
41 > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
42 >
43 >