please better support for linux!!!

and....... video please!!!!!!!

I agree with Fabio.
And also: why don't you use QT4 for all the skype versions? Opera does it and many other software (Google Earth, and so on).
It would be very very easy for Skype to deploy on all the platforms, even those platforms like Solaris and FreeBSD.

I'm very glad to see progress in Skype for Linux. But I'm very disappointed because there is no Video window
That's still the biggest missing point in Linux version...

No info about video support, it should be the most important feature. I'm not positive about it

Wake me up when it supports video chat.

I would be lying if I would say that I do not wait for video impatiently (like everybody else, I guess). However, I want to say that I appreciate it a lot that you keep on working to support also the LINUX platform. Also I am happy that you try to keep us informed about what is going on in the linux development branch...thanks! Any information (even if it does not include video features ) is better than none!

Apart from that the new GUI looks quite nice to me!

Hi I appricate you aren't releasing features yet but can you let me know if you are sticking with X11 messaging for the api. If not any chance of you sending me some info on what your doing and a beta build to play with?

keep up the good work.

Simon

Yea! Why have you not used the QT 4.2 toolkit? Sooner or later Skype will have to move to the never version to support KDE 4.

And since Skype-SMS is the most easy feature to integrate, please prioritise this. (at least I assume it is more easily integrated than Skype Video, and the other requested features!)

Anyhow, it is good to see that there is something happening in the Linux department at Skype!

> let me know if you are sticking with X11 messaging for the api

The x11 messaging stays, as well as D-BUS support. There were problems with D-BUS in latest 1.3 builds, I hope to overcome those for 1.4. So, you can safely write for X11 transport, it will be there.

> Why have you not used the QT 4.2 toolkit?

Which part of my text makes you think so? I specifically stated that we are using Qt4, didn't I?

I'm very happy to see the update with Linux version of skype and You skype guys should also be happy because If I don't spend my money on linux skype then i'll not spend it on skype at all

*drools*
New... Skype... so close!!

I can't wait. Thank you for all your hard work! I actually went out and bought a SkypeIn number earlier, just 'cos I'm so pleased that Skype for Linux is advancing. That, and the fact that I had some spare money lying around.

Anyway, keep up the great work!

Big question: Will the Beta be available to the public? I think I speak for all when I say we'd LOVE it.

There will be an Open Beta, but no dates set.

I would luv an Open Beta!! Is there anything that I can do to be an unreleased Beta Tester?

May I ask for a few small and easy to implement features here? These would be:
1) Add missing smilies. It would be even better if these were available from the smilies menu (ie, no longer secret);
2) Allow to drag-and-drop a file onto a chat window to send the file to chat people;
3) Better notification of new messages in a certain window. This could be considered a bugfix. Currently (at least in GNOME), a window with new messages only gets [*] symbols in window title, and a tooltip, but NOT in gnome window list. I only spot such behaviour in Skype, so I think it's not a problem in GNOME, but rather in Skype. It's very uncomfortable in cases like mine, when Skype sound is off.

And editing settings offline as well as ability to set up proxy password would be nice. Otherwise you're stuck in an infinite loop: you need to edit options to connect, and you need to connect to edit the options Thanks.

Keep a good work. I hope that new version of skype will remove bug freezing Ubuntu 6.10 for several sec when new message or call is coming. Im looking forward to new Skype:)

hagar_am: For now, you can disable Skype sounds as a workaround for those freezes. And animated emoticons too.

> New... Skype... so close!!

Indeed it is closed source. I managed to convert some friends of mine to openwengo, which is... well... open. And somehow has got webcam support.

P.S. Berkus, I bet a quid, that this wont show up
P.S.2. I would stick to skype, but Ive got few family members abroad and would like to see them from time to time

celafon, your comment is not showing up and i'll gladly erase your skype account. enjoy your serendipity!

never mind that celafon, berkus..
i'd just like to thank all skype developpers who take time to make skype better for linux. we appreciate that a lot

and if the unix community can be of any help like betatesting.. dont get shy and ask for it.
keep up the good work and thanks again

PS: an approximate release date would be awsome!

Heh, thanks for cheer up.
I can't be any more specific - it will happen first half this year! Real soon now(tm)

Thank you for your hard work !

Please support >> VIDEO

Running UBUNTU ULTIMATE and love it !

Ubuntu Studio - April

I want to say that I am plesantly surprized! After a scan through the forums things were looking bleak!

Thanx for communicating that linux support does continue. See why I am encouraged, below.
PS. Would love to beta test
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I run a shop of 40+ MS boxes at a gov't facility. I have been a MS lad for about 20 years. This year, I am running linux on my personal box and am preparing to change out other boxes to linux as they are replaced.

Skype has become a business tool for me. Although it is just OK on 1.3 using Ubuntu, I sincerely hope the Skype folks will see reason to ramp-up releases for linux because I believe other admins will be switching also.

Vista marks a departure point for me. Ubuntu has impressed me. Especially when I can run VMware and have my old XP box available during the transition.

I am not begging. I will find solutions as necessary. But it is always nice to say please and thank you!
So... Thank you, Skype, for making my life easier in business, and personally allowing easy contact with family across the globe. And...

Please get a rev out for the linux folks.

zedtop

first of all note that i'm not blaming you guys from the linux developing. I'm sure you have nothing to do with it and you strive to do a good job. But you know, the way your management chose to promote this only on a windows side is totally wrong. Unfortunately i depend on your application too much. And because of a video implementation which doesn't exist yet and because skype is a closed source app i have to use windows. I feel like i wanna bang my head to the wall in despair because of this since i always have been a linux guy. I hate all that starts with MS .
Yea.. You could say that it's a free world and i am free to choose whatever i want. Yes.. I know. Unfortunately there are no alternatives in this moment for me. Only skype, and i'm forced to use windows only because of the video (i'm far away from home and video is vital for me). I'm sorry to say but right now you are the Microsoft of communication. You are walking on the same monopolistic steps that ms did.
I sure hope you will finish video implementation soon or at least some serious competitors will arise on the market (wengo is not an option right now. at least not for me)
Sorry for being harsh, but i wanted to express my opinion. And i'm sure thousands of users can back me up on this one it's just that they didn't reach to my level of despair of the way your company treats linux users.

Video?
Wengophone 2, aMsn 0.97b, ekiga are there already.

Yea leodp123, but when all your contacts are using skype, you just cant tell them to use wengophone, ekiga or amsn.
You are forced to use an os you dont like. and that sucks.
Well.. all you can do is to wait for features such as video to be implemented. But by god's sake, dont blame the developers! (u do just fine guys )

wow, its great to see Skype is getting better and better under Linux. I am sure more people are joining Linux Desktop, therefor making Skype under Linux is very important.

As many other said before I would never use Windows if I get all the supported futures that Skype is offering under windows on Linux.

Video is important but that shouldn't be the end of the story. We need Skype push hardware vendors to write video drivers for their web cams that work under Linux.

Thank you

Hi Berkus,
I'm a linux user and uses skype regularly. I'm looking forward for the next 1.4 release. I just wanted to ask you a small favor, since I don't use kde/gnome, but i use blackbox,enlightment and other super fast desktop managers, they do not support tray icon. I would like an option to disable tray icon, i'm sure this would be easy to do and would make happy a lot of users out there. Thanks for Your time.

Use WengoPhone (http://www.wengophone.com), Audio+Video, 100%... Skype developement is realy slow!!!

Iopanx, few people use Wengo... Skype is the most popular VoIP program, so everybody use it ! I just want one thing for the next version of Skype for Windows : VIDEO PLEASE !!!

lpanx, I had so much difficulty installing Wengophone, it has very poor code quiality. Skype is a first class application where as Wengophone is second. Please do not compare these two together.

Common Skype please release the 1.4 faster !!! This is what customers want !!!

looks nice.
will you be able to see the local time of the dialog-partner in the chat window? i really like this feature on windows skype when i'm chatting with my brother who's on the other side of the globe. I also hope that the new version doesn't freeze my system anymore for a few seconds when somebody starts a chat with me =).

p.s: Klingon language support would be great also

I don't know if anyone else has raised this, and I don't know if you plan to include this in the next version for Linux, but I noticed when using the current linux version that I couldn't see any of my contact which I had put into groups using the windows version. I could only see the ungrouped contacts. If this is an incompatibility between the current linux version and the newer windows versions, then I hope that will be fixed in the upcoming new linux version.

Thanks.
Andy

Can you give us date of release? We will be very happy. Will it take a long time? Like hours, days, or weeks? Or, please not, months? Thanks for info.

Skype is unjust with Linux, Liunx they are tools professional, it east is moin up to date.

It is an injustice which Skype should repair considering the benefit, one has also the right to have same the levels of version.

Still not of video in Skype, too slow change of versions etc...

Please, video!!
In my business i want to install linux in all the machines (i'm linux user) and erase all licenses, but i can't do that due to support is throght webcam and product demonstrations.
I can't think that a operating system as linux, which is better that windows, we are behind

Why you are not going JAVA? I just tried Qnext 3.0:
Audio, Video, Chat. Even videoconferencing between 4 people works. And it works between Macs, Linux and Windowsboxes.
Please forget the different Platform, different feature and a lot of code hassle and make one Skype that fits all.

pretty cool screen shots of the new skype...
i wonder how skype would look if done in gtk...
can't wait for the release...keep up the good work...

Is it possible to download the beta version?

please, it's time to become serious people, skype staff.
it's ridiculous your linux support. let the community helps you, or close linux support DEFINITELY.
you support only windows version, and a little bit mac (you can coordinate the job with linux....) and you want only make money like other phone companies that's the facts. change your slogans and you'll be more serious
skype, take a deep throat.

almost four months have passed since you informed us that skype for linux will be rewritten. This is a very long time for a program which scope is clearly defined. What is the problem?
Too few people to work on it? Are you taking it not
so seriously? I can not believe that!
Since four months I have to kill skype and start it again if someone is calling me since otherwise the CPU goes up to 100 % and no communication is possible.
Please put me out of my misery...

will skypecasts be available in 1.4

I was pleasently surprised when I saw that Stanislav Karchebny took part of Decibel hackatron. Will skype have an interface on that? It would be SUPER!
Please blog about Your progress a bit more often..
As You see, people are really interested
Unfortunetly some are rude too.

ребята, мы хотим Видео! ...

А мы знаем, что вы хотите видео.

Должно ли нас впечатлить или напугать более чем тысячекратное повторение этого пожелания?

Мы и сами хотим видео не меньше вашего.

Some thoughts....
Ok, obviously windows users are...well, bigger numbers compare to Linux users..but taking into account what Microsoft has done with some others companies (in the other hand, completely legal), If I were you, Skype guys, I'll give some priority to Linux, at least like windows users. This is a future approach, and isn't a short-term view...If you have doubts, look to vmware. MS tried to buy and in a couple of years....virtual pc... working and competitive.

wavejoker (Sunday March 17): Exactly!
Skype: Don't pretent to support linux if you in fact don't. I am a linux Skype user for 3 years now and I can still count the number of linux releases on one hand comapared to dozens windoze releases! Nowbody forces you to support linux, its your free choice. But please do it properly if you say so.

A still loyal Skype customer.

I guess what I'd like, under the general realm of "Linux Support", was a Skype Toolbar for Firefox that wasn't Windows only. Most Firefox addons are not OS-specific.

It would also be nice if I could have a single Contact entry that could contain a person's Skype name and ALSO their POTS numbers. Right now if I have three different ways to reach a person -- home, cell or Skype -- and right now that requires three Contact entries. Will 1.4 address that?

Thanks!

PS: Also, is there any interest for supporting Skype on Linux Wifi devices (such as the Nokia N800) and data-capable smartphones?

I hope that you know very well by now how frustrating the lack of proper Linux support is. I mean, really frustrating. Sure, I can talk to my friends now, and Skype -- more often that not -- keeps running without a crash. But it is frustrating that the speech quality is so much inferior on Linux, and that there is no video support whatsoever. Not even a badly working one, despite all the talk since years. Did I mention that it is frustrating?

Well, just to make it clear: I am really frustrated with Skype for Linux.

I miss the video in Linux. I feel also not taken serious as a Linux user.

Is not it possible to hack the sourcecode so we can create our own Skype under linux?

I don't know if ever in my life i have been so frustrated about a piece of software. I keep hearing that there is a hard work . That is not so easy to develop this video support in such short term. I'm tired of it. Don't complain about time because it's been years since this is floating around here. So time is not an issue here. Guys. Just freaking remove this support for linux so i end coming on this forum and checking every 1 week if you did something to this application. This is not programming you are doing, this is just playing around for years with us. If you complain about time , just freaking open the source code and let the community take over. I can bet my money that in 1 or 2 months it's there, maybe not in perfect quality but it would be there and people will build on it. But anyway. We all know that this is not possible since your company is so monopolistic (MS style). Whatever with it. i won't stress myself anymore with you guys. Frankly i hope you will go down one day. Just the MS will.

Hi skype people,
are there any news?
Please give us a hint.
I would feel so much better...

Maybe there is a hope. Some small group from China's company make reverse engineering of Skype code successfully (I read this in internet yesterday). This mean that we can expect working Skype software for linux (with video I hope) from other companies. Even this can be start for community to build-up own Skype client with Video support and other futures. I'm very sorry to say this - but only this threat for Skype development can motivate them to speedup and show more frequently new versions of Skype for Linux.

Support for skype cast please

Berkus,
You and your team are doing a great job. I know it is hard work and GOD knows that I have no code-writting bone in me. I have to ask you for a favour: Skype on Linux has a one small bug. While dialing into a Conference Bridge or a phone, which requires a pass-code followed by a "#" sign, it never works on Linux for me. I am on conferences a lot and while traveling, I do not have access to a Windows PC and makes it very hard and I have to use my Cell phone/land line. Thanks

-GGR

> While dialing into a Conference Bridge or a phone, which requires a pass-code followed by a "#" sign, it never works on Linux for me. I am on conferences a lot and while traveling, I do not have access to a Windows PC and makes it very hard and I have to use my Cell phone/land line.

Have you tried with 1.4 Alpha?

http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html -> webcam drivers!

Will this version support sending SMS ?
I am getting frustrated...
After all I would send more messages and skype would make more money.... why not then ?

Just thought I'd add my voice to the Linux crowed, maby then the Skype people holding the rains on the development teams progress will start to give Linux dev some proper investment.

I'm using Ubuntu 64bit now and what with Dell announcing that they are now providing Ubuntu as an alternative to Windows on their units, Linux is looking to become allot more widely used. Both Linux and 64bit are coming into their time now and there are very good reasons for using them both emerging from the wood work.

Please provide better support for this.

Thanks.