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EionRobb / skype4pidgin

Skype Plugin for Pidgin, libpurple and more
https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypeweb#skypeweb-plugin-for-pidgin
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Skype4Pidgin v1.2.2 no Video/voice call option #662

Open User5959 opened 3 years ago

User5959 commented 3 years ago

When i was using Pidgin with my Skype account i wanted to call my contact, i right clicked on my contact but there was no Voice call or Video call option Can someone please tell me, how do i enable it, it says voice and video is disable, i'm using Pidgin v 2.14.1 and skype4pidgin v1.2.2

bodqhrohro commented 3 years ago

skype4pidgin has never supported it. Among all the plenty of protocol implementations that exist for Pidgin, only the XMPP one seems to support calls (and even it is often incompatible with other XMPP clients). The reason is simple: calling is much harder to implement than texting.

davidhealey commented 3 years ago

It was being worked on but there has been no update for a couple of years #349

User5959 commented 3 years ago

skype4pidgin has never supported it. Among all the plenty of protocol implementations that exist for Pidgin, only the XMPP one seems to support calls (and even it is often incompatible with other XMPP clients). The reason is simple: calling is much harder to implement than texting.

Thanks

User5959 commented 3 years ago

It was being worked on but there has been no update for a couple of years #349

Thanks