New skype 4.1.0.20 version experiences with Ubuntu 12.04

Hammer Attila hammera at pickup.hu
Thu Nov 22 15:28:30 UTC 2012


Hy,

This day my Ubuntu 12.04 system upgraded with Skype from 4.0.8 version 
to 4.1.0.20 version, but the proposed repository awailable my system. 
When the upgrade is happened, the old installed skype package are 
removed my system, and a new skype-bin package are installed.
Ubuntu partner repository now following version awailable, but only 
possible the proposed repository: 4.1.0.20-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
Changelog says following, this is a very fast upgrade:
"skype (4.1.0.20-0ubuntu0.11.10.1) oneiric; urgency=low

   * New upstream release, bumping skype-bin replaces/breaks.  LP: #1079348.
   * Add build-dependency on libqtwebkit-dev.
   * Mark library build-dependencies as i386-only.

  -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 21 Nov 2012"

Hopefuly only my system I have following experience:
1. Login screen is total inaccessible my machine. I hear only Orca 
screen reader with a "filler ctrl+Q" message. When I moving between 
dialogue widgets with TAB and SHIFT+TAB key combinations, actual vidgets 
are Orca not spokening. I only possible to log in the new version if I 
using following command into terminal:
echo "skype_username skype_password" |skype --pipelogin
The prewious version the login dialog are wonderful accessible, but now, 
only screen reader use graphical way impossible to log in.
Hopefuly other people not have same experiences, but if want keeping the 
4.0.8 version, please hold the skype package before upgrade and careful!

Have an official report possibility to report this problem? Oldest time 
I reported some issues with Skype bug tracker, but nothing happened.
Very need to land this version into Precise?

Attila



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