[Xylemon]

"third-party Skype client (e.g. to have support in Pidgin)" Funny because recently the old Skype plugin for Pidgin was re-written to utilize the new HTTP Skype. So now you have a nice client-less Skype chat in Pidgin. I'm certain someone could study it to write their own client.

[zipperhead]

I've been using the HTTP-based skype pidgin client. It seems to mostly work - the only show stopper is that file transfer requests fail silently. I had someone trying to send me a file. I had no idea. It was a little awkward.

[allan_s]

do you mind sharing the link to this plugin ?

[zipperhead]

Certainly:

https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypewe...

I'm using it from arch, via the AUR package purple-skypeweb-git