IVivcha·May 11, 2016
I wonder how does this compare to skype4pidgin [1] -- this pidgin plugin is working very nicely already
[1] https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin
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skype4pidgin
Skype Plugin for Pidgin, libpurple and more
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Due to instability and memory/race condition issues with the new sykpe app, I've been using Pidgin and the skypeweb plugin:…
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2 sourcesWhile I'm unsure about the inability to join calls, I can at least agree that the Linux client is terrible.
I finally caved a few months ago, got an account, and started using it ("oh wow it handles 's/woops/fixed/', that's awesome")... until the client began freezing, chewing 100% CPU for as long as I patiently left it running, and not getting itself sorted out. Removing ~/.Skype (XDG, anybody?) and re-signing in worked... for about 3 minutes, at which point my profile data re-synced, and the client began choking again.
Last I tried the Web-integrated version (Skype icon, top-right of outlook.com et. al., takes a minute to become clickable) I couldn't even type "/me ..." - the line would send verbatim. At that point I gave up completely.
I used to use IRC but I find it too Spartan nowadays, but on the other hand I don't want to have to r
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emember what chat tab is in what window, and I can't handle the idea of running 15 isolated instances of Webkit for all the separate chat systems out there, so that kills websites and most current "desktop" chat clients.
I don't use the Internet to communicate much, somewhat ironically. Everything drives me to distraction.
Notes:
- XDG: TL;DR = says stuff should be in ~/.config, ~/.cache, etc. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory_supp...
- I cannot help but admire the reverse-engineering going on at https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypewe... to make the outlook/skype web integration programmatically consumable. I have no idea how it works but the commits are very recent, which is a big positive sign.