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braydencorleone commented Tuesday, Jan 6

Will Windows Users ever get Screen Sharing? That would totally ROCK!

kevinlau_sg commented Friday, Jan 9

@braydencorleone - It's available as a Skype Extra.

http://www.indianweb2.com/2008/09/mikogo-skype-free-screen-sharing-conference-call/

ulungata commented Saturday, Jan 10

Unfortunately Skype still ignores the setting to hide the main window at startup (option under System Preferences --> Accounts --> Login Items). It is very annoying having to manually close the Skype window each time you start up your computer. When it comes to public settings such as giving speeches, it is not acceptable that an audience of, say 100 people sees your Skype contacts.

The bug was mentioned as early as 2005 (http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=30203) but nothing has happened ever since.

The least Skype could do is respect that setting. Even better from my point of view would be an "agent" or service similar to the Windows system tray so Skype doesn't show at all when you press Command-Tab. iChat does something like that (people can see that you're online and they can call you although iChat is not running).

janno_teelem commented Monday, Jan 12

ulungata: Yes, it is an old bug. Thanks for pointing it out. It's time to finally fix it.

henrik.kjelsberg commented Monday, Jan 12

I agree with what has already been mentioned. However, skype worked ok for me earlier, but this beta is really annoying. It shows that I have a new message every time someone changes their status!! And as far as I can see, there is no way of turning it off. Would´nt it be better to just color the contacts row or something?

brianjking commented Wednesday, Jan 14

Keeps crashing on my MBP running 10.5.6, can't get it to even log me in. Please help!

octopies commented Sunday, Jan 18

When IM'ing apostrophes don't work. the word "It's" comes out as "It's" at the other end. Happens with all apostrophes. It got so annoying for the people I was chatting to that I have had to go back to the non-beta version, which is a shame.

I'm sure this is an easy one to fix though.

octopies commented Sunday, Jan 18

ok, the text fixed itself in the thread...... apostrophes come out as & a p o s ; s (I have left the spaces so it isn't automatically corrected in the blog)

The version of Skype the other person was using is 2.0.0.6.

okwichu commented Tuesday, Jan 20

Screen share works great! I'm waiting anxiously for the reverse to be available as well - being able to see Windows users' screens would be very handy (and mostly obviate my need for GoToMeeting). Kudos!

buddaflie commented Tuesday, Jan 27

Hey, When are you going to get games for Mac users??? I've been waiting to have this feature so I can play with my friends who have PC's.

marshalldavis commented Thursday, Feb 5

So far, I've enjoyed the Beta version for Mac. A few improvements would be the ability to control another screen through screen sharing. Also, the main skype window can't be resized from left to right very far. In other words, I can't make the window any skinnier. That's highly annoying.

Thanks guys.

mathias.vahlgren commented Tuesday, Feb 10

What´s the plan for screen sharing for windows users? Will it happen in the near future?

khemistryx commented Saturday, Mar 14

The video quality in this version compared to 2.7 is really bad.
All my contact buddys see me pixelated.
Also I miss the feature to connect with Port 80 alternatively, so i can use skype in the university with cisco VPN Client, because all the other ports are blocked.

iannucci commented Friday, Mar 20

Screen sharing is excellent... but the beta version does not work with my iSight camera. Anyone else experiencing the same thing? And yes, the iSight camera still works with other apps (e.g., iChat).

tuckmeister commented Monday, Mar 30

How do you turn off this last.fm contacts notification function in the new mac beta? This is absolutely infuriating. Very un-Skype.

neatworker commented Saturday, Apr 25

To be honest I had hoped for better video quality. When I tried this between my Mac Book and a Win2k PC, the view of my Mac screen on the PC was rather blurred and I could not see the mouse pointer. IMHO not ready to replace GoTo Meeting yet, but I'm sure you'll fix it soon.

bigmadkev commented Monday, Apr 27

Any news on Mac Users Becoming Skype Prime Advisor's?

sily52 commented Sunday, May 31

urgh, yeah. my friend is having me use the skype beta because I'm having some problems with my internet and he's trying to help me, but he needs me to share something with him and my share button is un-clickable.

amailp commented Friday, Jun 19

Hello!

I have a bug to report for the Skype MacOS X beta (2.8.0.438).

Does someone know where can I report it (if I can) ?

Cheers

john_gaver commented Tuesday, Jul 7

Is there any estimate on when the Mac Beta 2.8 will become a full release version?

On a lot of software, I don't have any problem using a Beta version. However, I can't afford to have a flakey Skype or even a Skype that might be flakey. As it is, the 2.7 version has to be quit and restarted every morning, in order to remain stable throughout the day. Once it is restarted, it remains very stable for at least 12 hours of heavy usage.

2.8 sounds like it will be great and I look forward to using it, when it becomes an official released product. I'm just wondering if there is an estimated time frame for this.

I don't think that anyone will hold Skype to any estimate. After all, a certain company in Redmond, WA routinely announces the "impending" release of new product versions 2 or 3 years before the product is actually released. So, any estimates closer than that will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

eahorwit commented Saturday, Jul 11

Love Beta 2.8! I can compare it to your Windows 4.1 , too, since I just switched from a PC with Windows to an IMac. I love them both, and am grateful to you for creating Screen Sharing. On Mac it seems especially cool. Its "full screen" option looks a little better. We see they can see me and a major swath of my desktop, so they don't loose the sense of presence that Skype so brilliantly creates for us as we communicate over computer.

What I WISH I could do on Mac but can't, what I could do with 4.1 on Windows that was invaluable, though, was EDIT text I'd already "sent." If you can Skype's Mac version to do that, you'll find us all indebted to you. (You know, lots of mistakes get sent by all of us that we wish we could take back. Those lucky Windows users can!) If you can fix that pronto, I'd be eternally grateful.

And not as critically, if you could ever come up with a way that Mac and Windows users could play games together, the world would really be able to play together -- a happier, more harmonious place, like some 1960s Coke commercial.

Much thanks to you. SkypeBeta is beautiful.

toddgeist commented Tuesday, Aug 11

Hello

I love screen sharing, but I am really missing the ability to take over and control the other computer, like you can with iChat. Is that ever going to be a possibility?

Please make it so :>)

Todd

mannwald commented Sunday, Aug 16

I have mac tiger system and new skype share screening works great. However my friend has mac leopard and when he views my screen in sharing he can't make it bigger. There is no place on the bottom right to adjust the size. And when he clicks full screen it is horrible quality. Anyone else have this problem?

brucemiracle commented Tuesday, Aug 25

I've noticed with version 2.8.0.659 that on two different PPC Macs w/10.5x that the video sharing will freeze at regular intervals, somewhere between 30 seconds and one minute. The caller on the other end gets a frozen picture, which can be fixed by toggling the video share button until it happens again. Haven't seen this problem on Intel Macs at all.

sebhok commented Sunday, Sep 6

Same (very irratating) bug as brucemiracle, I have a PPC with OS X 10.4, and the same 2.8.0659 version of Skype. Could it be fixed or shall we install the previous version ??? thx

keithmacprogrammer commented Friday, Sep 18

Each time I get a chat message I would like my Mac to speak the text of the message. I see "@" speaks the name of the sender. How do I tell Skype to speak the message itself?

venkatandshobha commented Tuesday, Oct 13

I am trying to upgrade to the latest version. I keep getting an insufficient priveleges error which means I have to delete the old skype from my applications folder and then replace it. When I go to delete the old skype from applications folder I receive an error 43. Can someone help? What do I do at this point?

vshah9 commented Thursday, Nov 5

I love the screen sharing option with the new version of Skype. The only problem or drawback which will hold me back on using this feature is ability to give control to the other person. It is very important to me as sometimes when I work remotely with iChat I have lots of issues in getting the other person to share my screen. This works great but I cannot use it. Looking forward to having this feature in Skype. Great job you guys! Skype is rocking. Love it

dgwilson65 commented Monday, Nov 9

Love the new version. I desperately need the ability to control the remote machine. Actually it's the mother-in-laws mac. I upgraded over the weekend (she is a 2 hour trip away) and after getting it home the printer doesn't work. Talking through the support discussion remote control fashion isn't a good use of my time!

ravenheart606 commented Thursday, Feb 4

Hey, I have a Mac, and usually I don't care about not being able to play many games with it... normally I'm not much of a gamer. But I love playing chess and things with my fiance, who just joined the navy and is now very far away from me. I cannot tell you how wonderful it would be if we could play over skype. Why haven't you set up this feature yet? If you could do that soon, I would be so ecstatic.

iswayze05 commented Tuesday, Mar 23

mac skype needs the same features as windows. it doesnt make sense to give some users options that the other doesn't with mac and windows. Games,snapshot,effects all need to be added. skype is great but being on mac just doesn't cut it. good luck getting it all to work and thanks again.

nbbsdc commented Wednesday, Mar 24

Running 2.8.0.851 and I remember why I stopped using Skype . Why can't you fix the startup issue . Why do I not have control over a program on my computer . If the fix is not forth coming please let me know and I will throw it out again
Dave C

thonn.spencer commented Friday, Oct 15

Dear Skype Devs and Moderators,

When will there be Skype for Mac 3.0? Skype 2.8 crashes, I can't rejoin calls without recalling the group, and etc. I am thinking to moving to another platform than Skype due to the such buggy software. Please, at least let me know when a beta version is coming out; 'cause it's so annoying.

Thank you.