Comment 1 for bug 684678

with Pidgin running, the proposed behaviour is fully implemented. Pidgin acts as a bridge between Ayatana technology (NotifyOSD, Me Menu, Messaging Menu) and the running Skype client via Skype DBus API.

It's just that i'd very much prefer to see the conversation indicators in "Chat" and not in an extra Messaging Menu category called "Pidgin".
If there must be a category, i would prefer for it to show Skype as a subcategory of Chat.