Re: [orca-list] Skye and Orca

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

OK, now I understand your original post much better/thanks.
I'll look at the things you mention and see what happens. 
I always have kept and recommended that others keep last known to work version of skype, and some other 
things, mozi programs for example. 
As for the  lib32-qt4 package, well I've not been ofered any updates that have broken anything. 
I have a version from the end of Oct, built on the 25th I think, and not had any seg falting or any 
obnoxcious behavior so far.
Are you building this from source, using a testing repo, or are you having problems with the version
4.8.7-6
that I am running?
I made plans  to momstly live with out skype a couple or three years ago, i.e. keeep an account active for 
emergency traveling, but not use it on my 
production machine(s). 
I now have a n android phone that gives me another way to use skype as well, but it is handy to have on my 
laptop as one can say, "just instll skype", and 
not need to walk them through alternatives if they do not already have it, and pretty often I find businesses 
that I need to deal with have a skype 
account. 
I do hope that MS does not make a mess of things, even short term, but one nver knows. 
I probably said too much, and certainly do not want to get the anti skype crowd up in arms, nor for that 
matter have ppl think I'm a skype basher. 
Thos who know me might know my thoughts re skype, others, well guess...lol  

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     B.H.
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  Tyna Pelletier-Bilodeau wrote:
Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:13:44PM -0500

> Hi there,
> what I meant was that latest lib32-qt4 package pretty much breaks skype
> client. At first it was complaining that a file was missing so you couldn't
> use skype at all. Then that got fixed, but skype is now segfaulting. A bug
> report was opened, but it will never be fixed. So you need to keep lib32-qt4
> out of date in order to beable to run it at all. With this old client you
> can no longer join a conference call/chat if there are windows users in
> there. It will refuse you access, telling you to upgrade skype. Calls to
> individuals are still possible, but it's probably only a matter of time till
> microsoft remove support for that 4.3 version from their servers. As to why
> the issue will never be fixed, it's because skype is old, unmaintained, and
> that arch no longer distribute it in its official repositories. Skype is the
> only program affected by this issue. For using web.skype.com you will need
> chromium+chromevox. It is a must as of now, most things are grayed out in
> firefox, and it's not that accessible even, same thing if you faked out your
> user agent to make them believe you are running chromium, it won't work, it
> is even worse.
> Le 2016-11-17 20:25, B. Henry a écrit :
> > I do not know what you are talking about.
> > I am running skype on arch-Linux, updated a few days ago.
> > Things do not appear much different. My contacts appear as they always have, and I made a skype out call, 
> > as well as a test call; both worked as always.
> > Are you saying that we can't get to the skype website via the linux skype client?
> > If so, is this a very big problem?
> > Is there something important we can not do?
> > I assume I can still do things opn the website from firefox or chrome, but will check if I have time 
> > later on tonight or tomorrow.
>
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