I raised this issue wiht Skype beta team a while ago and I was toldwas that this is by design. If you wish to not have Skype not start at Home, rather your contacts, it's required to purchase Skype Premium.
FYI: eBay (not Google owned Skype before) and now Microsoft has it Sent from my iPhone On Apr 30, 2012, at 5:16 PM, "Missy Hoppe" <mitmee....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there! Thank you so much for starting this topic thread. Hopefully, this > is the appropriate place to bring up my number 1 > complaint with skype on the mac. > When I first got my mac and installed Skype; I believe this was version 5.1 > or so, the program always started in the contacts > list. Ever sinve 5.3 or so, when I run the program, it starts me on something > that Voiceover tells me is called Skype Home. > It basicly looks like a facebook clone. Granted, it's not prohibatively > difficult to navigate to a table, interract and find > my contacts list and stop interracting, but I personally feel that this is > something I shouldn't have to do, and it's just > aggravating enough that I avoid using skype as often as possible, and only > run it periodically to check for updates in hopes > that this issue will some day be fixed. I've checked preferences time and > again, and there simply isn't a way to configure > how the program starts. > To make this even more frustrating, when I ask people about id, they claim > that they don't have this problem. I'd be more > than happy to disconnect skype from facebook if it would fix the problem, but > would rather not if I don't have to. I don't > really understand the point of the favorites thing either, and miss the > simplicity of the first mac version of skype I ever > used. Sorry for the aimless rambling, but I hope it makes sense to someone. > Missy > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kawal Gucukoglu > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 5:07 PM > To: macvisionaries > Subject: Skype on the Mac made accessible? > > This message is for Kevin Chow if he is working with Skype on the Mac with > Skype Team. > > Hi Kevin. > > I have been using Skype on the Mac for a long time and when Google had the > program, it worked beautifully with the Mac. > However since Microsoft have bought it, it has not been very good on the Mac. > > The dial pad is inaccessible. Is there any way of getting Skype for Mac > fixed? > > If there are other issues, feel free any one to say if Kevin is going to get > this sorted. > > Kawal. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
