Application Details:
| Version: | 5.0.x |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | http://www.skype.com |
| Votes: | 1 |
| Latest Rating: | Platinum |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.7.23 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
- Registration
- Chat
- Voice calls
- Smilies (not all, manually written only)
- Sending files
What does not
- Smilies popup
- Default avatars are up-side-down
- Various wine error messages sometimes on startup
- Default wine's desktop icon, not Skype's
Workarounds
What was not tested
- Video calls
- Skype Extras
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
OK, it crashes on startup or hangs time after time. But other times it works ;) Here's a screen shot http://clip2net.com/page/m118247/28381833 Used Skype version 5.0.0.156
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Aug 03 2014 | 1.7.23 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | nis | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 12 2014 | 1.7.18 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Aug 11 2014 | 1.6.2 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | CentOS 6.4 | Sep 16 2013 | 1.7.1 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Artem S. Tashkinov | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 15 2013 | 1.7.1 | Yes | Yes | Silver | an anonymous user |
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