All (or most) of the problems seem to be gone when using new version of Skype - 1.3 beta. Under dapper there is no necessity to do wild tricks with repackaging.
In addition to that sound handling is better and no need to restart skype every few calls - it no longer blocks the audio device (and uses ALSA now).
And the startup time has increased significantly...
All (or most) of the
All (or most) of the problems seem to be gone when using new version of Skype - 1.3 beta. Under dapper there is no necessity to do wild tricks with repackaging.
In addition to that sound handling is better and no need to restart skype every few calls - it no longer blocks the audio device (and uses ALSA now).
And the startup time has increased significantly...