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Web Skype + Tray Icon + Notifications
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Skype officially released web skype app for Linux #125

Closed vasekch closed 6 years ago

vasekch commented 7 years ago

This issue is more a question weather maintain ghetto-skype when there is an official version out now.

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With announcement of deprecation of old GTK Skype app from 1st July 2017, official web app wrapped for desktop has been released, so called Skype 5.3

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@stanfieldr Thank you for your amazing work!

bhelm commented 7 years ago

i dont like the fixed-width chat size, the quoting style and the representation of the web skype. i really like the more productive, xchat-like style of the old skype linux client. i could imagine that ghetto-skype could become a customizable and themeable alternative for the official "skypeforlinux" client.

msmoby commented 7 years ago

The official version only supports 32 bit arch

bhelm commented 7 years ago

the new "skypeforlinux" supports x64:


# file /usr/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux
/usr/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.26, BuildID[sha1]=57b6d0700088063f4abc1a19526f85aa8eed600b, stripped```
msmoby commented 7 years ago

@Bhelm I'm so sorry.. I meant to type, "The official version only supports 64 bit arch"..((

I have installed ghetto-skype on Linux 32-bit arch and am very happy

hako1 commented 7 years ago

I am using 17.04 (Unity) 64 bit. Today, I tried skypeforlinux 5.4.0.1 from the official repo (sudo apt install skypeforlinux). Unfortunately, after a first open, the app stayed in memory with no icon and no way of accessing it (had to kill). The workaround (env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity) also did not bring up an icon. On another machine 17.04 Gnome runs Skype without problems. That's how I came to Ghetto-Skype, which installed ok, and runs so far. However, I still have no indicator icon, so that I have to start it again by dash.

stanfieldr commented 6 years ago

@hako1 It seems like the electron/builder version used in packaging 1.5 had a bug. In the next release, it'll fix this issue. Here's a deb of the in-progress 1.6 https://stanfield.it/downloads/ghetto-skype_1.6.0_amd64.deb

stanfieldr commented 6 years ago

As a programmer, I find proprietary software like a jail cell. If they made it open source, I probably wouldn't be using the Ghetto. As yall may have noticed I haven't been releasing versions lately, but I do use this daily at my work/home and will make updates if it stops working. I am merging pull requests as well, we got a notification count on the tray icon from a contributor, really nice feature. Too bad he couldn't merge it to the official version ;)