That's by design: the global status menu items are not be shown if no applications are registered to use the global status [1].
Skype-wrapper and pidgin probably don't advertise that they can make use of the global status. They should have a line
X-MessagingMenu-UsesChatSection=true
in their desktop files.
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu#Chat_status_section
That's by design: the global status menu items are not be shown if no applications are registered to use the global status [1].
Skype-wrapper and pidgin probably don't advertise that they can make use of the global status. They should have a line
X-MessagingMe nu-UsesChatSect ion=true
in their desktop files.
[1] https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/MessagingMe nu#Chat_ status_ section