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Skype application uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to provide voice-based communication with other Internet users.
The technology is extremely advanced, but easy to use. It features excellent sound quality, end-to-end encryption, and automatic negotiation of firewalls or routers.
Here are some key features of "Skype":
· Free unlimited worldwide phone calls to other Skype users
· Superior sound quality
· Works with all firewall, NAT and routers – nothing to configure!
· Friends list shows you when your Skype friends are online and ready to talk or chat
· Super-simple and easy to use
· Your calls are encrypted “end-to-end†in order to safeguard your privacy
· Based on cutting edge peer-to-peer technology developed by the creators of Kazaa and Joltid
Requirements:
· Qt 4.2.1+
· D-Bus 1.0.0
· libsigc++ 2.0.2
· libasound2 1.0.12
What's New in 2.0.0.43 Beta Development Release:
New features:
· Additional X11 overlay output support for video calls (without using Xv).
· Automatic scrolling whilst highlighting in chat.
· Click-and-hold for Call button on contact card to make SkypeOut calls to contact's Home, Office, Mobile numbers.
· Click-and-hold for Call button on incoming call popup to invite to conference call.
· Click-and-hold for Add/Search Contact button to give quicker access to Add/Search options.
· Preload all chats with a topic into event history.
· Show birthday present in contact card on contact's birthday.
· Translations now also available in Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish and Thai.
Bugs fixed:
· API: Don't bring up new chat window for an empty chat from CHAT CREATE.
· API: Don't respond to CALL command with OK.
· API: Starting conference calls with CALL skypenameA, skypenameB now works as expected.
· Allow user to change from a video device that no longer exists.
· Always expand the contact card by default in 1:1 chats.
· Bring chat window to the front if it is already open and is requested to be open.
· Change red cross to green tick when file transfer is completed.
· Chat find failure error dialog should be centred on the chat.
· Chat member list no longer accepts any keyboard focus.
· Clicking on the scrollbar in chat no longer loses focus on chat input area.
· Correctly show mute status for mute events that happen outside the call window.
· DBUS checkbox was offset in Options dialog.
· Don't allow a conference call to be invited to a conference call.
· Don't display Leave Chat dialog when using /leave feature, but still leave and close the chat window.
· Don't double-escape spaces in file paths.
· Don't remove current index when closing the last contact card.
· Don't remove the old SkypeOut number before adding the new one on rename, incase it fails.
· Don't send escaped version of the topic when changing topic.
· Don't show age in birthday reminders for contacts born in the future.
· Don't show the option to invite to a conference call when we are not the host.
· Escape should close Invite user to chat dialog.
· Escape should close error dialogs.
· Event history filter type is forgotten when switching between contact list and event history.
· File transfer widget didn't update the number of people sending to when removing a transfer.
· Use 'Call Failed' notification when Voicemail fails or is cancelled.
· Fix a bug with speaking indicator conflicting with Call on Hold status messages.
· Fix a regression with Shift-Arrow/Ctrl-Arrow in main list.
· Fix crash in Rename Widget when trying to change to a PSTN number that's too short.
· Fix crash on incoming conference call.
· Fix crash when entering short phone number in Add SkypeOut dialog.
· Fix escaping issues in Profile Viewer.
· Fix for a layout drawing bug in transfer window when adding to expanded transfer groups.
· Fix for issues with holding calls and duration continuing
· Fix for listview layout breakage when window is sized at minimum.
· Fix for menus appearing below the mouse cursor on buttons.
· Fix for tooltips disappearing elsewhere in the client during a call with technical call info enabled.
· Fix for topic editing bar remaining open after window switch.
· Fix minimum size being invalid in Invite users to chat dialog.
· Fix mute button and tooltip in fullscreen video widget.
· Fix some memory leaks and crashes related to historical calls.
· Fix stray selection area visible after clearing selection in chat.
· Hide Video button during a conference call.
· If you hangup on a conference call participant whilst sending them a voicemail, they couldn't be invited again.
· Invite user to chat dialog should be centred on the chat.
· Listboxes in Options Dialog should stretch.
· Maintain avatar background colour during a sending-only video call.
· Make Ctrl-Space toggle the selection of the current contact on the contact list.
· Make Ctrl-V work when opening Call Ordinary Phones dialog.
· Make Speaking indicator a bit more reliable during status changes.
· Mouse cursor needs to be updated after moving over a link in chat and using the mouse wheel to scroll.
· Numbers in Skype chats open in user's browser instead of calling in Skype.
· Open file paths in file browser, not Web browser.
· Pasting a new mood message with the middle mouse button wouldn't save.
· Prevent empty new events panel bug to do with Calls/Birthdays.
· Ringing sound may not stop if inviting an incoming call to a conference call fails.
· Remember file transfer window location and size.
· Remove 25fps video send limit due to uvc driver fix.
· Remove over-complicated contact menu call actions.
· Removed 8) B) b) emoticon definitions.
· Scrollbar shouldn't be scrollable when the chat window is empty.
· Search dialog could be resized below valid minimum size.
· Select previous name in Rename Contact when opening dialog.
· Sending an empty message to the API could crash the client.
· Show contact's name instead of ellipses when shortening chat history.
· Show if a 1:1 call is held in the window title.
· Turning Auto-Away/NA option off would not save correctly. (SCL-308)
· Update chat window when message is delivered/undelivered to correctly redraw layout.
· Update video preview to new device if applying changes in options dialog.
· Wrap words correctly in chat input box.
Known Issues
· 64-bit users may need to upgrade their gspca or uvc drivers if their webcam is not being detected by Skype.
· uvc users should upgrade to revision 166 or later of this driver if they are having issues with Skype.
· Non-accelerated X11 output currently doesn't scale video output. This means that in full-screen, the video will be smaller than the available screen size. And similarly, in video preview, you will only see a cropped section of the actual video window.
· Contact Groups are currently not yet implemented.
· fglrx (ATi graphics) users should be running 8.40.x or later drivers

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