Skype Linux Client plugin (SMS support)
I was pretty upset after reading that the last status update on the Skype Linux client was back in January. Since I was using Skype on Windows all week last week, I didn’t know how bad it was on Linux until I got back home. What a bummer that all Linux gets is v2.0, while Windows gets v4.0. In particular, I needed the SMS feature. So, now Gentoo has this feature via plugin now too.
Simply emerge net-im/skysentials (which pulls in dev-python/skype4py) and run skysentials.py
It is not the best solution hack, but I am afraid it is all that we will get for quite some time based on frequency of Linux client status updates…
Thanks for this.
I’m on ARCH=x86, so I’ve just copied the ebuilds to a local overlay and added KEYWORD=”~x86″ to both skysentials-1.0.1 and skype4py-1.0.31.0, everything seems to compile fine, but will test it properly when I get home.
Cheers
neil
Glad you can find use of this stuff. Once you confirmed it is working for you then you can file a bug requesting an x86 arch team member to add the keyword. =)
I guess that is what you get for becoming dependent on non-free software. It is the same old story, again and again. It’s better to not use it at all.