How to Close Skype
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It's not that I can't right click the icon in the task tray - it's WHY does the large icon need to stay in my face like Word/Excel/Outlook/Chrome, etc? Skype used to 'close' to the task tray, now it takes up space in both.
I think most people realize that it's a program that is designed to have a continuously running process waiting for incoming calls, but it doesn't need to be 'fully launched' to do that.
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@art_of_shred said:
As Joe and I were just sitting here discussing it, it seems a large number of communications apps behave that way. Is it that hard to right-click the icon in the tray and hit close? It's always worked for me.
I do that and Skype doesn't close for me. I'm honestly unaware of how to close to Skype without digging through menus or killing it through the task manager.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
You are incorrect.. It is not default. Shall I open Visual studio and prove it? I have designed more than one Windows desktop application.
I thought that in VS it had an exit code wired up to it on default. Is that no longer true? Was it true before and removed?
If you do not put any code into the function, the window closes and nothing else happens. the application will continue running. That is the default behavior as far back as I can remember. I have been doing application development professionally since 2006 (only part time now as I mostly do systems now).
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@Dashrender said:
I think most people realize that it's a program that is designed to have a continuously running process waiting for incoming calls, but it doesn't need to be 'fully launched' to do that.
Problem for me is that I don't want it to behave that way. It is not and never has been my phone. It is only ever a momentary "open it to connect with someone I've arranged to talk to" software. I know of almost no one who uses it and wants it to stay on. I know some people do, but lots don't. It's not like normal communications software that you pretty much only run and want running continuously. It's "addendum" communications software that you turn on just for a special purpose.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
As Joe and I were just sitting here discussing it, it seems a large number of communications apps behave that way. Is it that hard to right-click the icon in the tray and hit close? It's always worked for me.
I do that and Skype doesn't close for me. I'm honestly unaware of how to close to Skype without digging through menus or killing it through the task manager.
Here is the setting. I likely changed mine ages ago when I installed skype. No idea if it asked me, but it likely did the first time i clicked close, because I doubt I would have went into these settings myself.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I think most people realize that it's a program that is designed to have a continuously running process waiting for incoming calls, but it doesn't need to be 'fully launched' to do that.
I know of almost no one who uses it and wants it to stay on. I know some people do, but lots don't. It's not like normal communications software that you pretty much only run and want running continuously. It's "addendum" communications software that you turn on just for a special purpose.
I never close it, and never want it to. Infact, Generally I run two instances of it. I have a personal Skype account and one for business use. It was what I use for the main form of communication to coworkers as it works better than Lync for Office 365 in my opinion. I use it as a central communications application throughout every day.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I think most people realize that it's a program that is designed to have a continuously running process waiting for incoming calls, but it doesn't need to be 'fully launched' to do that.
Problem for me is that I don't want it to behave that way. It is not and never has been my phone. It is only ever a momentary "open it to connect with someone I've arranged to talk to" software. I know of almost no one who uses it and wants it to stay on. I know some people do, but lots don't. It's not like normal communications software that you pretty much only run and want running continuously. It's "addendum" communications software that you turn on just for a special purpose.
Well Scott, you're not going to get that. Skype has never worked that way - it's always since say day 'closed' to the task try. It's more like a chat program in this manner, and that personally I don't disagree with. But making it stay front and center on the main running programs portion of the start bar is what I don't undestand. UNLESS users were complaining so much that they just couldn't find the icon in the task tray so they could launch it again quickly when they needed, I suppose that's possible.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
As Joe and I were just sitting here discussing it, it seems a large number of communications apps behave that way. Is it that hard to right-click the icon in the tray and hit close? It's always worked for me.
I do that and Skype doesn't close for me. I'm honestly unaware of how to close to Skype without digging through menus or killing it through the task manager.
Here is the setting. I likely changed mine ages ago when I installed skype. No idea if it asked me, but it likely did the first time i clicked close, because I doubt I would have went into these settings myself.
I've installed recently (because I need it when I want to talk to @FiyaFly) and it did not ask me anything.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
As Joe and I were just sitting here discussing it, it seems a large number of communications apps behave that way. Is it that hard to right-click the icon in the tray and hit close? It's always worked for me.
I do that and Skype doesn't close for me. I'm honestly unaware of how to close to Skype without digging through menus or killing it through the task manager.
Here is the setting. I likely changed mine ages ago when I installed skype. No idea if it asked me, but it likely did the first time i clicked close, because I doubt I would have went into these settings myself.
I've installed recently (because I need it when I want to talk to @FiyaFly) and it did not ask me anything.
Same here.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Problem for me is that I don't want it to behave that way. It is not and never has been my phone. It is only ever a momentary "open it to connect with someone I've arranged to talk to" software. I know of almost no one who uses it and wants it to stay on. I know some people do, but lots don't. It's not like normal communications software that you pretty much only run and want running continuously. It's "addendum" communications software that you turn on just for a special purpose.
Unless you actually know most people who whose Skype, do not assume that "lots". is any significant portion of the Skype user base.
The people you know and the people I know are different then because of the 15 people in my contact list they almost always have Skype on for ease of communication.
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@JaredBusch said:
The people you know and the people I know are different then because of the 15 people in my contact list they almost always have Skype on for ease of communication.
I have 15 in mine as well. 4 are offline, but on with different accounts, 3 are marked 'away'. And that is my business account. Don't get me started on personal.
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I will admit I rarely use Skype unless prompted to do so by a team member. However, I won't assume that anyone else out there uses it in any specific way. Making assumptions about a widely-used product based on the (mostly assumed) information you have about how the people you know and their use of it, is basically worthless. Like I have a clue what millions of people out there are using their Skype accounts for. You don't either. Get used to it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
It is only ever a momentary "open it to connect with someone I've arranged to talk to" software.
Then instead of clicking X and expecting it to quit the application (which is not a default behavior of the Windows platform as discussed above) simply right click the notification area icon and choose exit.
I will agree that the option to minimize to taskbar on the X click should (at least the first time) ask you which behavior you want to set as the default.
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@JaredBusch said:
The people you know and the people I know are different then because of the 15 people in my contact list they almost always have Skype on for ease of communication.
You would be most likely to be adding people who keep it on. I think that you will find tons and tons of people who require Skype to talk to that one or two people who use it and use nothing else. Using Skype is one of the super annoying third party systems where there are just enough people using it that everyone needs access to it but most people don't want it around - especially given how poor the interface is and how clunky everything is. It's extremely poor to use unless you are in it all of the time.
I've probably got thirty or more people in my contact list, only two or so are ever on any any given time. I'm not aware of many people who leave Skype open all of the time. That's extremely surprising to hear. I know of no one who doesn't have it, but you are the first I've heard of that uses it as a regular, full time tool.
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@JaredBusch said:
I will agree that the option to minimize to taskbar on the X click should (at least the first time) ask you which behavior you want to set as the default.
And should never be a "minimize to taskbar" which already has a button in the same place. This is a degree of either overly sloppy or just outright mean interface design that you don't normally see in legitimate software.
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@scottalanmiller said:
And should never be a "minimize to taskbar" which already has a button in the same place. This is a degree of either overly sloppy or just outright mean interface design that you don't normally see in legitimate software.
Many, many communication applications have this option. It is an option.
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@JaredBusch said:
Many, many communication applications have this option. It is an option.
To keep it in the taskbar as a duplicate functionality of two buttons? What other software does this?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
Many, many communication applications have this option. It is an option.
To keep it in the taskbar as a duplicate functionality of two buttons? What other software does this?
Lync, for starters.
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Lync does not do that, Lync's close button goes to the notification area, it doesn't just "not close."
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