On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:15 AM, <fors...@ozonline.com.au> wrote: >> Installing Skype on the XO-1.75 using the instructions at >> wiki.laptop.org/go/Skype does not work. > > As others have pointed out, Skype (the company) does not publish a > "skype-for-linux, ARM version". AIUI, they will never do so, and > probably they'll stop caring about the current skype-for-linux > x86/x86_64 real soon. > > They do publish a devkit that has libraries for various platforms, and > I've been told it has an ARM binary library. The documentation is > interesting -- clearly they have a library to make it easy to build > your own UI to skype; and they have Python bindings (and examples!). > > So if some enterprising soul wanted to sign up for their dev program > (there's a small fee, I believe) you can look at what's inside, > perhaps even try to run the python samples on our hw. A Python client > means a Sugar-ish client is possible, if you want to look at the > upside. (The downsides are well documented :-) ).
I believe there's actually a telepathy library already written that uses this, no idea about the ARM side of things but I believe that is what the Nokia n900 uses and its ARM based so it might even work! What would be REALLY cool would be a Video Chat Activity for Voice and/or Video chat. It could likely use the empathy stuff underneath and then it could use MSN/Gtalk/jabber/etc and all the underlying infra already there, and all the contacts etc from empathy in gnome would just come across. I've actually had a number of queries about this of late from interested Fedora people. > Here I am glossing over some complications -- ARM is a bit more > fragmented that x86, so a unified ARM version is possible, but would > likely suck badly on all platforms. You'd want ARMv5tel for our > current build, which would perhaps be so-so, and then ARMv7hl for the > OS we'll prepare next year. Maybe not as bad as you think meego has both softfp and hardfp and supports it I think (had to be something good come out of Meego!) I'll try to remember to have a poke when I get a spare moment. > Similar concerns affect Flash-for-Linux on ARM and any > performance-sensitive binary plugins you can think of. Yea, now that is a train wreck. Might be time to look @ Lightspark > One good piece of news is that Skype isn't the only game in town. > Google-talk-plugin has been my friend lately, and competes with Skype > plenty in my personal usage (it's the plugin behind gmail/gchat voice > + video, g+ hangouts, and google's own int'l dialling service). Agreed, I think a Video Chat Activity might be out best bet. We're already got it on the gnome side. Peter _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel