[asterisk-biz] Chanskype released

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 18:34 -0300, Bernardo Vieira wrote:
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> You're right, I can't imagine anyone in their right mind running X along
> with * in a production environment.


If you really wanted this, you could run the X virtual framebuffer,
which doesnt use hardware but provides the same functionality.  VNC is
probably required becuase you have to allow a remote program to connect
to skype (or edit the xml config file to allow it to happen and log in
automagically without ever interacting with the skype client).

The biggest problem that I see is that the skype client only lets 1 call
at a time through it in this fashion.  As such if you want to support 10
calls you have to have 10 clients running all with different logins.

There are two major methods of controlling skype clients, one is dbus or
via X (Qt) controls.  The dbus method is the one that skype pushes more
aggressively, and that one requires yet another thing to run, although
its fairly light on both cpu and ram, so it by itself shouldnt matter
that much.  Skype however isnt so friendly.

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