I gave Skype’s shiny new Electron-Thing a chance. It works, but it does not integrate at all into Gnome. And apparently, Microsoft has not shut the “old” Skype service so far, as my CentOS machine keeps working with it. I decided to switch to Empathy (which I use for XMPP, ICQ, … anyway).
What confuses me is the plethora of different packages (all from the official openSUSE repo) for “add Skype to libpurple” in soo. Which one should I use? Is there any difference between libpurple-plugin-skype and skype4pidgin which seem to be what I search for? What actually does libpurple-plugin-skypeweb? Does it integrate the Electron-Thing with libpurple? Or is it for “real” browser-based systems?
I am a bit confused here … if someone knows how to get Skype integrated in Empathy, I’d be glad to learn. (I’m currently on Tumbleweed, but I don’t think that’s relevant.)
Purple is the codename for Pidgin’s core. The skype plugin you reference is just using a “purple” shim to connect to Pidgin. My guess is that the plugin is separate because the Skype code is probably much older and uses the shim to connect to a Pidgin rebase. https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple
So, no need to install “purple” anything, it’ll be pulled in as a dependency. with the following command
I’d prefer to use Empathy over Pidgin. So you suggest to install libpurple-skype as a package? That wasn’t actually on my list, I think. And, iirc, it does not install Skype (the actual binary) on its, own, does it? So if there were an option to use the more up-to-date Electron based “Skype for Linux” with a libpurple integration that itself is recognised by Empathy, that would be my first choice, I think.
Don’t use the app so if there are plugin options I can’t opine.
Can only describe what exists in the OSS, and I gave the command (although it has a typo) what to install, here is the corrected command you should use if you want to run the Skype plugin for pidgin.