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KRunner and Skype with a Plasma Python runner

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After the odyssey of developing a KDE Plasma runner in Python I have finally develop a simple one that interacts with Skype. You can read the full story (part 1, 2, 3 and 4) or just the (useful part) modifications to my KDE and the final example.

You can download this version from here or download the latest (and beta) version from the bazaar repository...


To uninstall it just...


I hope to get a fully stable version very soon and then, I will publish a downloadable file in project page and a deb package in my PPA.
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