Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, VoIP
Skype 5 Mini brings better-looking chat to Skype 5 for Mac
by Jay Hathaway Nov 7th 2010 at 2:45PM
Mini is the Lego to the default's ages-3-and-up Duplo. The first thing you'll notice about Mini is that it drops the clownishly large font size down to something reasonable. The next big thing is that the View Earlier Messages bar at the top has been made a lot more space-efficient, and all the options fit on one line now. This doesn't fix some of the other complaints people have had about the new Skype, though, like the somewhat scattered UI elements -- searching for important functions and settings is no fun for the novice user -- but it does make Skype's text chat a lot more tolerable.
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Duck said 3:48PM on 11-07-2010
I used the new Skype for a whole of 5 minutes before I realised that it's absolutely terrible.
There's no way to fit the chat window next to the video window and the inability to undock windows makes for a very rigid interface.
It feels like they're saying "fullscreen or gtfo"
It's like all the functions of the program are carefully hidden behind unlabelled buttons too.
I hope Skype decides to revamp the interface a lot before they release it, they need to.
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techichyk422 said 8:21PM on 11-07-2010
I like the new look, the UI of the new skype is terrble. You can't chat and have a video window open at the same time...which if youre in an area that you dont want to speak outloud and still see the person youre talking to you can either do one or the other. Not a fan. Skype can leave certain features such as the group video feature but at least label stuff so youre not just guessing and searching for the features that youre used to. Also make it so you can chat and have your video up at the same time.
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F-Zero said 2:36AM on 11-08-2010
i can't believe that the way they tried to make the UI more 'native' to osx is by putting in a coverflow view for your contacts - completely and utterly useless. i don't know about you, but address books/contact lists are primarily designed for efficient searching
oh, and the 2 comments above are from some spammer's account. someone ban that account
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