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bitlebee

Posted Jan 16, 2007 23:54 UTC (Tue) by mbligh (subscriber, #7720)
In reply to: ssh + screen + irssi by Zero_Dogg
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to graphical IRC clients

Yup, that's an awesome app ... seems to do everything gaim can do.
Most glaring ommision is skype support.


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bitlebee

Posted Jan 17, 2007 15:06 UTC (Wed) by mbanck (subscriber, #9035) [Link]

I think I read somewhere sometime ago that Skype had made their text-based chat protocol open (maybe in response to the announcement of Google Talk), but since then I haven't heard anything about it. Quite a couple of my non-FLOSS friends use Skype, so I'd be interested in integrated text-based Skype chat in bitlbee or somehow otherwise.

Anybody know about this?

Michael

bitlebee

Posted Jan 18, 2007 8:53 UTC (Thu) by bni (subscriber, #27103) [Link]

I can join in in the praising of bitlbee. The fact that they run public servers that you can use for free is also very nice. Makes it very easy to get going.

bitlebee

Posted Feb 11, 2008 12:46 UTC (Mon) by LintuxCx (subscriber, #14448) [Link]

Actually there's a very nice plugin that adds Skype support via the official Skype API. See
the bug report for more information: http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/ticket/82

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