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Reggia: Gnome 3 instant messaging
skype-open-source.blogspot.com/
Il giorno 21/mar/2012 22:52, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com> ha
scritto:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Serghei Amelian <serghei@thel.ro> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 March 2012 23:28:11 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Serghei Amelian <serghei@thel.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/
>
> Ouch, that sucks. You still need Skype running; what I wanted was not
> to install Qt, not having it "hidden".
>
> Now that Skype is owned by Microsoft, I'm pretty sure will never see
> an independent native 3rd-party client on Linux.
>
> Regards.
> --
> Canek Peláez Valdés
> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>
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