E’ disponibile per il download la nuova versione beta di Skype per Linux.

Questa nuova versione porta sul pinguino alcune funzionalità interessanti come lo screen sharing, l’instant message quoting e la possibilità di modificare l’aspetto dell’interfaccia utente.

Qui sotto trovate elencate tutte le modifiche e le novità della 2.1 beta 2:

Known issues:
General
* Logging out and in may cause Skype to crash.
* Using Oxygen Style might lead to graphical issues.
* On Debian amd64 version Skype crashes on startup with the message: “Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 623: _dl_open: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT’ failed!”
- This seems to be Debian only issue with 32 bit PulseAudio libraries being installed even if PulseAudio is not active, a workaround can be:
- Debian Lenny: sudo chmod a-r /usr/lib32/libpulse{-simple.so.0.0.1,.so.0.4.1}
- Debian Squeeze: sudo chmod a-r /usr/lib32/libpulse{-simple.so.0.0.2,.so.0.8.0,common-0.9.15.so}
* On some amd64 distributions avatars are not showing, this is a problem with 32-bits emulation Qt library. Qt tries to find its image format plugins, but finds a 64-bits version instead and fails to load it.
A workaround is to specify a plugin path when launching skype like this:
- Ubuntu 64 bit: install “ia32-libs” package and launch Skype with: QT_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib32/qt4/plugins skype
- Arch 64 bit (with 32 bit chroot installed in /opt/arch32): QT_PLUGIN_PATH=/opt/arch32/usr/lib/qt/plugins skype
- Other distributions might have a different path.

Options
* When PulseAudio is enabled in the audio settings, only that specific entry will be available; to change the settings, use the PulseAudio manager tool that is bundled with your distribution.

Contact list
* Newly added contacts are not found by QuickFilter until Skype restart.
* It is not possible to drag multiple contacts to a group.

Instant Messaging
* Sometimes Instant Messages are not ordered correctly.

Video
* Sometimes receiving video shows a white square on top-left part of the window.
* Skype does not work well with newer version of GSPCA Webcams driver (Linux Kernel >=2.6.27), possible workaround:
- Ubuntu 32 bit: install “libv4l-0″ package and launch Skype with: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
- Ubuntu 64 bit: install “lib32v4l-0″ package and launch Skype with: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
- Other distributions might have the same library, but may have a different path.
* How to make video working on Logitech Quickcam Messenger [0x046d:0x08f0]
- http://www.kuhrti.de/index.php/linux/logitech-quickcam-messenger-on-linux/
- http://www.kuhrti.de/index.php/article/logitech-quickcam-messenger-on-ubuntu-9-04/

New features, improvements and bug fixes:

* 20.01.2010, version 2.1.0.81

* feature: Screen sharing.
* feature: Report abuse.
* feature: Support for UI styles.
* feature: Possibility to quote a message.
* feature: Localized time formats.

* improvement: Instant Messaging performance improvements.
* improvement: Possibility to add more email addresses to profile.
* improvement: Load all historical group conversations into event history.
* improvement: PulseAudio: Possibility to choose different audio device for ringing and notifications.
* improvement: A message is displayed when the user tries to add contacts that already are his/her buddies.
* improvement: Incoming contact request dialog.

Crashes
* bugfix: Crashes when an Instant Message is out of order.
* bugfix: Skype crashed after turning on animated emoticons.
* bugfix: Pressing F6 at login screen makes Skype to crash.
* bugfix: Skype crashes when trying to send a SMS to some invalid numbers.
* bugfix: Skype crashes when clicking on an invalid Skype Name link, ie. “skype:22?add”.
* bugfix: Skype crashes when using cancel button in “add SMS Members” window and then pushing “Add” again.
* bugfix: Crashes when clicking on popup event after logged out from Skype.
* bugfix: Crashes when calling conference call with auto send video and privacy set to “nobody”.
* bugfix: Using “CLEAR CALLHISTORY ALL” API call will cause a crash.

Profile
* bugfix: HTML injections on profile’s Home Page.
* bugfix: Local time timezone has no longer an invalid value.

Instant Messaging
* bugfix: s/old/new/ command is not escaped.
* bugfix: Editing a message will not change the timestamp of the message. The edited timestamp is displayed in the tooltip of the pencil icon.
* bugfix: A group conversation stays bookmarked when left.
* bugfix: Misordered day dividers are handled properly.
* bugfix: Instant Message search settings are not working and saved.
* bugfix: Day separator in conversations was not behaving well.
* bugfix: In some cases the Instant Message disappears until the next IM arrives.
* bugfix: Wrong message displayed when adding a group conversation picture.
* bugfix: Do not select all text when editing a message.

Contact List/Main window
* bugfix: Newly bookmarked conversation now work well with quickfilter.
* bugfix: Bookmarked conversations don’t appear in contact list if done via history for never opened IMs.
* bugfix: With QT 4.5.x contact groups get collapsed after a while.

Options
* bugfix: Option dialog resizes to fit the text.
* bugfix: Voicemail recording/resetting works better.
* bugfix: Selecting second camera to won’t work unless Apply is clicked.
* bugfix: Under SMS options the “My mobile phone number..” is always greyed out.
* bugfix: Escape key now exits fullscreen on a video call and when testing video in Video options.
* bugfix: Escape key doesn’t close “options” window.

Audio
* bugfix: No ringing sound on default Alsa device.
* bugfix: PulseAudio: AGC works better and does not put volume to 0.
* bugfix: PulseAudio: Sounds cut-off at the end and perhaps PA sound stuttering.

SMS
* bugfix: SMS character counter do not work correctly when adding emoticons.

Add/Search new contacts
* bugfix: Minor improvements for displaying error message when searching/adding existed contacts.
* bugfix: Add a Skype Contact window grows when switching back from Add a Phone Number Contact.

API
* bugfix: API: OPEN IM sends message instead of adding it to input area.

Calls
* bugfix: Calling without enough credit shows as a dropped call.

Others
* bugfix: Close change password dialog when pressing escape.
* bugfix: Declining multiple file sendings doesn’t work.

Localization
* l10n: New in bundled languages: Ukrainian – Oleh Nykyforchyn.
* l10n: Back in bundled languages: European Portuguese – Francisco Miguel Ferreira, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai.
* l10n: Updated languages: Bulgarian – Nikolay Filipov & Nikolina Filipova, German – Claudius Henrichs, Estonian – Marit Mesipuu, French – Cédric Lamouche, Italian – Marco Cimmino, Lithuanian – Viktoras Kriukovas, Polish – Karol Szastok, Brazilian Portuguese – Fabio Roselet, Romanian – Péter Henning & Mónika Iancu, Russian – Pavel Shevchuk, Turkish – Ömer Emin Dede.
* l10n: Countries and languages were not correctly translated under Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Chinese Simplified and Traditional

Scritto da Tiziano Fogliata, venerdì 22 gennaio 2010 alle 13:42
Parole chiave: beta, Linux, Skype, VoIP
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