Re: [orca-list] using skype with orca

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

"Aruni Sharma" <libranarsh gmail com> writes:
[...]
> 3. start skype. you will need sighted assistance at this point in
> order to log in to your skype account.

Not necessarily. Start Skype, wait a few seconds, and the log in dialog
will appear. Type your username, then tab to the password field, enter
your password and finally press enter.
[...]
> 5. copy the appropriate file to /usr/lib/purple-2 or
> /usr/lib/purple/plugins folder whichever may the case be.

On this page there's also a Deb-package. Install it with dpkg as root.
[...]
> 7. at this point orca will go silent as skype is not gnome-based. you
> will need sighted assistance in order to allow this external plugin to
>  interact with  skype. the "yes" button has to be clicked
> twice/thrice. maybe you will also need to restart orca

When I tried the plugin, Orca stayed in the Pidgin window, so that I
didn't notice this additional barrier. Pidgin always announces the Skype
client as not connected and the user as logged out, and I couldn't
figure out what was wrong.
With no sighted assistance this solution seems not
practicable. Indeed it's the same obstacle as in Gizmo, where everything
is beautiful, if you have sighted assistance to type in for you that
annoying captchar.
The central problem is, and will always be, Skype.
Hermann

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