Back to Skype…to the place I belong…
May 1, 2008 Mark O'Neill 137 views
Well I went back to the regular Skype interface today after months of using the Pidgin plugin. At the beginning of the year, I was trying in vain to consolidate everything under one roof and I liked having all my contacts on one list. So when I found the Skype plugin for Pidgin, I imported all my Skype contacts over. All the buddy icons went with it and I generally found it nice to have everything bundled together.
But after a while, it started to irritate me. You can’t make calls through Pidgin so when someone called me through Skype, both Skype and Pidgin would clash with one another leading to one of them crashing. Plus the plug-in imported EVERYTHING over which meant I had to delete my 150 or so regular phone numbers from my Skype list which was intensely annoying. Then when I chatted with a Skype contact through Pidgin, a Skype chat window would open too duplicating the chat messages…..
But the upshot of it all is that I missed the Skype user interface. It is very user-friendly and easy to use and although Pidgin is also very good to use, I still prefer Skype. So I went back to it today. I just have to begin the tedious task of re-entering all those phone numbers again!
I am even considering returning to the Google Talk interface too….
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May 2nd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Mark,
I agree. I think I like the Skype interface the most of all of the IM clients I’ve used!
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:09 am
Sad to hear that you’re leaving the Pidgin plugin, especially since your complaints have all been addressed in later versions of the plugin. You can turn off SkypeOut contacts from being displayed in the account preferences, and you can call buddies by right clicking and choosing “call…” on them. The chat windows won’t open in Skype either, as long as you have Skype hidden in the system tray.
Hope I can convince you to switch back
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 am
Eoin : After re-entering all my phone numbers into Skype, I will try again. I really like the plug-in and now that you have told me that these issues can be circumvented, I will give it another go.