Hello everyone, it has been a while. A long time ago, when I was beginning to use Linux, I found myself missing the layout of the Windows Skype which was that one window layout where at one side you will have your contacts and next to it you will have your conversation, and then I found this application called Skypetab-ng, which is as close at it will ever get to that layout. Installing Skypetab-ng You can easily install Skypetab by copying and pasting the following code in your terminal (Only working on Ubuntu based distributions): sudo add-apt-repository ppa:keks9n/skypetab sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install skypetab-ng When you are done installing it, you should have two different instances of Skype, one that is the normal Skype and another one that is the Skypetab one. In order to get it to work you need to always launch the Skypetab one. Skypetab puts all your windows in one, and instead of you clicking the contact every time you want to chat with him/her, you click a the tabs at the top right. This system can be more convenient if you are chatting to with a small amount of friends and you want to have them there all the time and be easy to find, mostly when you have many contacts. That's it, now you have a Skype that looks close to the one on Windows, and by the way, THANK YOU MICROSOFT FOR BARELY UPDATING SKYPE FOR LINUX YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES, EVEN THOUGH IT IS A DIFFERENT PLATFORM, WE ARE STILL USERS OF YOUR FUCKING SHITTY SERVICE SO GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER AND TREAT US LIKE YOU TREAT WINDOWS/MAC OS USERS. ( at least we don't have ads on Skype for Linux but still, fuck). If Microsoft cared more about the actual users instead of looking at the platform itself as the competition, I will not be wasting my time writing this post.
You can find the blog of the developer of this app here [Click Here] and his github page here [Click here]. Also, if you want to see skypetab in action click here [Click Here]. Thank you for reading, if you have any questions regarding this application or its installation you can leave a comment in the comment section or you can contact me directly, my information is in the contact tab.
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aura
8/16/2014 06:39:28 pm
eyyy its me
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