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Re: [Gaim-devel] Anyone having a try with skype (Gaim as a messaging UI through skype public api)?

[DennisR <de...@de...>]

Message: 3 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:51:11 -0800 From: "Sean Egan" 
<sea...@gm...> Subject: Re: [Gaim-devel] Anyone having a try with 
skype (Gaim as a messaging UI through skype public api)? To: "Martin 
Ott" <pah...@gm...> Cc: gai...@li... 
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 2/23/07, 
Martin Ott <pah...@gm...> wrote:

> > Maybe I'm slightly insane but somehow I discovered skype to have its public
> > api: https://developer.skype.com/Docs/ApiDoc
>   

> The "public API" is just an IPC DBUS interface. It's GPL-compatible,
> but not really that useful. You have to have Skype running and, at
> that point, why even bother using anything else?

What about just implementing the Skype chat protocol for now?

I know for example, I use Skype at work, however we don't use the phone capability in it. The UI on Skype is really a disaster. Personally I hate having 7 different conversation dialogs open when I'm talking to different people at work.

Isn't using Gaim that we all know and love apposed to the standard client, just to send an IM, what we're all about?

-- 
Dennis Ristuccia
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Re: [Gaim-devel] Anyone having a try with skype (Gaim as a messaging UI through skype public api)?

[Gergo S. <bas...@gm...>]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:20:03 -0500
DennisR <de...@de...> wrote:

> What about just implementing the Skype chat protocol for now?
> 
> I know for example, I use Skype at work, however we don't use the phone capability in it. The UI on Skype is really a disaster. Personally I hate having 7 different conversation dialogs open when I'm talking to different people at work.
> 
> Isn't using Gaim that we all know and love apposed to the standard client, just to send an IM, what we're all about?

I'd like to have this, too, I only use Skype for chatting, if I'd like to phone (rarely), I start the official client, but I hate running it all the time, for the very same reasons.

Re: [Gaim-devel] Anyone having a try with skype (Gaim as a messaging UI through skype public api)?

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

On 3/6/07, DennisR <de...@de...> wrote:
> What about just implementing the Skype chat protocol for now?

Because the protocol is ridiculously heavily encrypted and obfuscated
(self-modifying code is used heavily) beyond the point of reason.
Reverse engineering would not be easy.

-s.

Re: [Gaim-devel] Anyone having a try with skype (Gaim as a messaging UI through skype public api)?

[Charles A. <cha...@gm...>]

On 3/7/07, DennisR <de...@de...> wrote:
> What about just implementing the Skype chat protocol for now?

http://www.secdev.org/conf/skype_BHEU06.handout.pdf

up to you :)

Charles