It works on Empathy 3.3.3 in Ubuntu 11.10 Did you mean this is pidgin-skype bug? But in the Pidgin it works.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/15358/can-i-use-skype-through-empathy http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/04/run-skype-as-a-daemon-and-manage-it-from-empathy-in-ubuntu-11-04/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/970885 Title: Empathy 3.4 and pidgin-skype Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I'm trying to connect to Skype throught Empathy 3.4 in Ubuntu 12.04 i386 (last update installed) I installed the pidgin-skype plugin, but there is no bigbrownchunx-skype-dbus protocol in list. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: empathy 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Apr 1 19:30:35 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120328) SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/970885/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp