Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 19:54 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
We waited a little while with this news, because we wanted official confirmation from Skype before jumping on the internet bandwagon. It's official now, so here we go: Skype has announced that it will release its Linux client as open source. A little late, but welcome nonetheless.
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RE: GTK2 interface now possible
by malu on Wed 4th Nov 2009 06:13
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RE[2]: GTK2 interface now possible
by darknexus on Wed 4th Nov 2009 10:52
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Creating a Pidgin (libpurple) protocol plugin using this will not be possible, since their core library will be closed source...
Um, you've heard of shared objects, aka libraries, right and that you can link to them? It won't matter if the protocol is closed source since the plugin could just link to it. This has already been done with the official Skype client, and that was closed source too. The big difference here is that the protocol could be used without the actual Skype client running.
So, it's not impossible. You might wish it to be impossible, but wishes don't make facts.
RE: GTK2 interface now possible
by toast88 on Wed 4th Nov 2009 09:05
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If by the client, we could finally have Skype and Pulseaudio integration.
Skype 2.1 has perfect pulseaudio integration, just use a pulseaudio version more recent than 0.9.16 better 0.9.19. I am running this on Ubuntu Lucid (which is virtually still the same as Karmic) with pulseaudio and it works like a charm. I can even use my bluetooth headset. If your pulseaudio version is 0.9.15 or older chances are bad it will work well. For me, Skype never worked without crashes and sound problems until PA 0.9.16.
Adrian
RE[2]: GTK2 interface now possible
by darknexus on Wed 4th Nov 2009 10:47
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Skype 2.1 has perfect pulseaudio integration, just use a pulseaudio version more recent than 0.9.16 better 0.9.19. I am running this on Ubuntu Lucid (which is virtually still the same as Karmic) with pulseaudio and it works like a charm. I can even use my bluetooth headset. If your pulseaudio version is 0.9.15 or older chances are bad it will work well. For me, Skype never worked without crashes and sound problems until PA 0.9.16.
Adrian
Adrian
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this. Very good to know, and encouraging at the same time. If one commercial vendor is finally recognizing that Pulseaudio is the future of Linux audio, whether we like it or not, perhaps others will follow and we can have an end to sound issues... until, of course, someone else comes out with a different audio layer that every distro rushes to adopt
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At least we can now link directly to the protocol library instead of going through Skype's client, which means a GTK2 interface could be created. With QT still being inaccessible this would be really great, or even better a fully-integrated plugin for Pidgin that doesn't need the Skype client to be running. Does anyone know, also, if the audio data is output by the library or by the client? If by the client, we could finally have Skype and Pulseaudio integration.