With Skype now being fully integrated into Maemo 5, Skype contacts are automatically imported when activating your Skype account... exception: Skype out contacts are not imported at all. This is much needed functionality, ie., syncing with the Skype address book.

For the time being, a possible way to import the SkypeOut contacts into the N900 is to create a Skype Contacts backup on a Windows system, this creates a VCARD backup of the contacts.

But to import this successfully into the N900's Contacts Manager, the SkypeOut VCARDs need to be extracted and reformatted. Here a little awk proc to do the extraction and reformatting,

http://home.mminternet.com/delaroca/...tle/Genvcf.awk

Next, all that suffices is to import this new VCARD file into the Contacts manager. For duplicate entries, the Contacts manages happily creates new entries, existing entries are kept secure.

Feedback would be appreciated.

Alas, we don't yet have user defined categories for Contacts... as it would have been nice to place these imported contacts into a category group of their own.

There's a grouping of contacts by account, which allows selection of Skype contacts only... but I don't know how that grouping is done, perhaps this VCARD entry defines that grouping,

X-Skype;TYPE=skype;X-OSSO_VALID=yes:userfoo

perhaps just defining TYPE=skype as in above would suffice... any thoughts?

More generally, the new Skype integration into Maemo 5 unhappily break the integration with the Skype Cloud address book as far as SkypeOut contacts are concerned... hopefully this problem is addressed in the future, and not just for Skype.

--denis