[Telepathy] Skype libfolks backend

pablo.a.saavedra at gmail.com pablo.a.saavedra at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 05:15:49 PDT 2011


On 24 October 2011 05:27, Debarshi Ray <rishi.is at lostca.se> wrote:

> >> 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.
>
> Isn't there telepathy-spirit already? And I also found
> http://eion.robbmob.com/
>

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.
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