It is now already a few days ago, since then Skype in its newest version (5.0) appeared. I was not for the first day straight enthusiastically, meanwhile I the new (Mac) version absolute case of pure would call.
Times apart from the increased breaks or program crashes – at most the really miserable Usability disturbs me. Skype continues to increase and more klobiger from version to version. Is it nevertheless because of a wrong understanding of Usability or at the lining up stock exchange course/IPO? Does the software behind Skype have to become now also more largely, more important and more visible?
Everything into a window
Meanwhile is with Mac Skype everything in a window. Contact list as well as all Chatfenster. If I write with several people parallel, I must always look into the lateral strip and change back and forth. Completely in former times once one could park simply several chat windows next to each other on the second monitor. Skype says use to the new arrangement by the way “more simply ever”. Unpractically it meets better thinks I.
The buttons/icon are misleading
As software developer or Web designer one has several possibilities, in order to pack the functions of application. Either I select a button with that the function am directly called or it give first further options. In latter case that should the user in addition, before already clicks to be suggested. By an arrow downward or such a thing. The new Skype version is full with new buttons and button. Without simply times drauf to click or the mouse over it hold of it the few are self-describing. Here times an example. The following four buttons are above each chat of window.
We take second from left: TC, perhaps frame? No, makes no sense. Who clicks here can between further options select and at the end its screen transfer. Strictly speaking that starts by the way also a call. Why thus don’t start the button right to take and behind the arrow “video call” and “screen transmission” make possible? Then all discussion functions would be where the listener are. It would not have been so heavy nevertheless. The confusion pulls itself by complete application. I had to use the feeling the first times Skype and after some years as Skype user should one this feeling despite new version have.
A software lives on Konstanz (no, not the city). At the beginning is much anyway still again, there must it not unnecessarily difficult make. Skype uses different techniques in each place. From small drop down which behind a button, up to Apple hides itself the typical nose box or completely new level for the input of the telephone number. Really many things do not occur to me, which one would have still more badly to designen and to arrange be able.
How would that look optimal Messenger/VOIP Client?
It would be slim, would not be noticeable one not in it writes so long and it would not be economical with my main memory and my processor extent of utilization. I in former times already used Miranda, in order to go to the dreadful and continuously more badly becoming ICQ interface out of the way. I must unfortunately state that with Skype momentarily something similar happened and it continues to itself remove with each version from my Messenger ideal. Too stupidly that Skype is so practically and first of all far common.
I made meanwhile by the way again the Downgrade on the old version. Whom was similarly?