Comment 2 for bug 453598

i don't feel so confident as yet.
Pidgin is able to talk to Skype via dbus API, i see a category "Skype" with its own indicators in the messaging menu and notify OSD shows bubbles on incoming messages, when i setup my Skype account in pidgin.

My contacts also appear on the buddy list.

Now we need this to work with "Contact List" and Telepathy/Folks, then we'll need a clever way of getting rid of the notification area icon on the long run.

Perhaps it would suffice to place a Skype button in the Unity launcher...