Skype 5 Mini brings better-looking chat to Skype 5 for Mac

If you've switched over to the Skype 5.0 Beta for Mac, and you don't love the new look of Skype chat, there might be an easy fix. Skype 5 Mini is a simple chatstyle swap that cuts a lot of the whitespace out of Skype's new default chat appearance, letting you fit more text into your window.

Mini is the Lego to the default's ages-3-and-up Duplo. The first thing you'll notice about Mini is that it drops the clownishly large font size down to something reasonable. The next big thing is that the View Earlier Messages bar at the top has been made a lot more space-efficient, and all the options fit on one line now. This doesn't fix some of the other complaints people have had about the new Skype, though, like the somewhat scattered UI elements -- searching for important functions and settings is no fun for the novice user -- but it does make Skype's text chat a lot more tolerable.

[via Reddit]

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