Address Book field - skype?

hello everyone,
i don't know if anyone can help me, but i was trying to add the skype username of some of my friends in address book, is there really no field for skype? thank you.
nicolas

And, it may be that Skype or other VoIP identifiers
are better placed in the telephone number field, than
the IM identifier field.
Lets not cunfuse things here - Skype and other VoIP identifiers are different things. Let's be clear phone numbers and IM IDs are different.
Phone numbers should go in the com.apple.contacts.Phone_Number field and nothing else but. And IM IDs should go in com.apple.contacts.IM field and nothing else but.
What should then happen is for there to be the following Skype actions in the drop down menus associated with:
com.apple.contacts.Phone_Number:
Dial with Skype
Send SMS with Skype
- These two actions above already exist.
com.apple.contacts.IM
Text Chat with Skype
Audio Call with Skype
Video Call with Skype
- These three actions would be need when you could identify an IM ID as Skype. Hopefully, when there is an "accommodation for additional identifiers".
Can any Leopard devs confirm that com.apple.Contacts is being updated?
Cheers Daniel

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jim_78 wrote:
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I
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