Park continues to detail the new additions in Skype 5.8 for Mac, noting that “Columns in your Contact List window can be resized to their minimum width so that users can make the best use of space on their desktop.”
Skype Premium subscribers are now allowed to see their video call and screen sharing at the same time, “so that you can see the reaction of the person or people you're sharing with.” Since your effort has been so important to shaping up the next Skype, “significant efforts have been made to improve overall usability in this release,” writes Park.įor instance, there’s a much-improved Contacts Monitor that allows you to make your contact list more compact while using other apps on your Mac, saving screen real estate. Skype for Mac has just been given a major overhaul which includes a truly compact contacts monitor, improved screen sharing for premium users, resizable contact list columns, improved SMS support and automatic reorientation of mobile video calls, a keyboard shortcut for volume control and support for the unreleased Mountain Lion operating system.īeom Soo Park, beta program manager for the Mac Skype client, says this release is the result of some valuable feedback sent by users worldwide.
