The Skype Thread

[Jake Cattrall]

I would like to open this thread up to discuss a practical means to enable Skype functionality on Chromebooks but specifically ChromeOS.

Skypekit's anti-consumer license has always stopped developers from using skype features from inside a web browser, but with ChromeOS packaged apps API (http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html), you are not running the application in a traditional web browser environment. Let's have some fun in this grey area.

I propose a test ChromeOS build that includes skypekit for linux. You can obtain the binaries at the skype developer website: https://developer.skype.com/, more information here: https://github.com/nickcherryjiggz/jira-skype-app/tree/master/skypekit_4.3.0

After getting this to run, we would need to interface with the skypekit from additions made to chromeos's packaged apps api.

From here we would have a base on which to build a working ChromeOS Skype client.