<div class="gmail_quote">On 24 October 2011 05:27, Debarshi Ray <<a href="mailto:rishi.is@lostca.se">rishi.is@lostca.se</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">>> are there any plans to write a libfolk backend for skype? Skype >> provides a DBus API for obtaining its contact, it's used by gnome-do >> and kupfer, it would be great if gnome-contacts could benefit from >> this. > > There aren't any such plans. Since libfolks already has a Telepathy > backend, I think it would make more sense to write a Telepathy > connection manager for Skype instead. > > There's been discussion about writing such a CM before, but I'm not sure > where it ended up. I guess there'll be something about it in the list > archives. </div>Isn't there telepathy-spirit already? And I also found <a href="http://eion.robbmob.com/" target="_blank">http://eion.robbmob.com/</a> </blockquote> telepathy-spirit is closed source and only built for ARM (no x86 builds). The other one is for libpurple, which I'd rather avoid. Thanks. </div>