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At some point, Skype announced that it would open-source the UI part of the Linux client, allowing people to implement whatever interface they wanted. I guess
by scribu 14y ago
At some point, Skype announced that it would open-source the UI part of the Linux client, allowing people to implement whatever interface they wanted.
I guess that was before they were bought by Microsoft.
- decklin 14y agoYou can communicate with the Skype client over DBus, which allows you to replace a lot (although not all) of the UI with something else. Two examples: http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/ http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/ https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/skyyy https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/skyy... The protocol is incomplete (the "native" Qt UI isn't built on it), but it is at least documented on their dev site.
- scribu 14y agoThere's also https://launchpad.net/~skype-wrapper/+archive/ppa https://launchpad.net/~skype-wrapper/+archive/ppa but it's buggy and still requires you have the main Skype window running.