Kommentare zu: Trillian Astra Alpha: Performance and the attitude towards Skype

Von: Torben

Torben — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:08:00 +0000

You might want to have a look at my recent post. Cerulean put official Skype support into the recent beta builds of Trillian Astra. Cheers, Torben

Von: eCommerce Consulting

eCommerce Consulting — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:13:00 +0000

Thanks for the review Torben, I myself am looking for a messenger client that can communicate across a variety of platforms including skype, and just like you mention everyone and their mother seems to point to SkyLlian plugin although it does not solve the specific need. It’s surprising that doing a search for it, all the results are from 05 and 06 talking about SkyLlian but there hasn’t been any developments since then.

Von: DiamondNRG

DiamondNRG — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:29:00 +0000

Torben,

I have to partially agree with your article in regards to the fact that CS needs to find a way to make Skype work.

Unfortunately you do not seem to understand that the API is for controlling the client, not interacting with the server. This means that all CS could do is write their own “SkyLlian”.

I am the administrator of SkyLlian, although the developer has long since abandoned it and I do not have access to the plugin’s source code. However, I have talked several people through the process of getting it working on Vista/Astra, as it is possible and it does work.

I really dislike the tone you use towards the SkyLlian project, it was designed for 3.1 and was the best that ANYONE had ever done at the time.

But like you said, if people want better, they need to make it themselves.