Hi folks, Merry xmas to everybody…
i have a greate news for all pidgin lovers…
yes! you red well… i packaged two pidgin plugins that allow to to use pidgin fro skype and facebook chat!
don’t beleive me? here some pictures:
Skype
really nice eh? and it’s really easy to install and use! all packages you need are on my repository home:anubisg1 lots of you know it because of pidgin upstream version without the need to add GNOME repositories.
All you need to use it are skype4pidgin and pidgin-facebookchat packages. Once you install them you have to set-up your account… let me show you how.
On “add account” windows you’ll see 3 other protocols: facebook, skype, skype (D-BUS), choose the one you want as i did here:
now, if you choose facebook plugin, you simpy have to accept login.facebook.com SSL certificate and then you are ready to go. like here:
if you want to use skype plugin instead, right now you still need skype to installed and run…
On you first skype login using pidgin, you have to allow pidgin to connect skype like here:
that’s all.. you can now do anything you do with skype/facebook with pidgin too, you may want to know, that right now, the skype plugin directly use skype to start audio/video calls, because it is not able to do it..
Have fun with it.
Andrea
oh i forgot.. here links to the plugins home pages:
