Mark wrote:
> Skype down the road. Thanks much for you time and thank you again for > such an awesome program! > There is a 'Skype for Pidgin' Plug-In that incorporates Skype Messenger into Pidgin. No Webcam functionality but You can see Your Contacts & their Status in Pidgin using the Plug-In as well as IM over the Skype Network. FWIW, Pidgin also supports MySpace Chat and so there is no real need to have a separate Application Open for this either. I'd wager that Webcam incorporation is probably the most common Feature Request submitted to Pidgin Developers. <SIGH> My understanding from literally hundreds of Posts here and from perusing the Pidgin code is that this function will be quite some time in the future, if ever. The various IM/Chat Services all use varying implementations of Video Chat protocols. There is no 'easy' way to implement this feature but I am certain that the Developers would welcome any time & assistance You might provide in the form of Patch submissions, etc. I am not trying to come across as a smart alec but; again, this is not a simple thing to incorporate. :-\ What I do is maintain installations of the different IM Applications and when the need to Video Chat presents I disable the corresponding Service/Account within Pidgin and Open the specific Service independent of Pidgin for the duration of the Video session. Once the video session has terminated I close the Application & re-enable the Account in Pidgin. HTH JOHN ;) Timestamp: Sunday 14 Sep 2008, 00:21 --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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