{"id":186,"date":"2011-09-20T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=186"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:21:14","slug":"make-skype-5-3-os-x-show-your-contacts-instead-of-recent-history-on-the-left-sidebar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Make Skype (5.3 OS X) show your contacts instead of recent history on the left sidebar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new version of Skype for OS X (5+) received a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.skype.com\/index.php?showtopic=793299\">negative comments from users<\/a>.&nbsp;It is getting better but I was still missing to see <strong>all my contacts at once<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>I know it is <strong>possible to open the Contacts monitor,<\/strong> but that is a separate always-on-the-top window. Instead I wanted to see all my contacts on the left sidebar. On default, the <strong>left sidebar or sidepanel includes the most useless information possible<\/strong>: a log of my last conversations &#8211; my history of Skype usage. I couldn&#8217;t care less who I called. I call people when I need them and not based on looking at my history ;).<\/p>\n<p><strong>However, it is possible to have all contacts on the left if they are added to favorites <\/strong>(as of version 5.3)<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Click on the Contacts<\/strong> on the left side below the username <\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong>In Contact list<strong> click on the white star on the right of the first contact&#8217;s name<\/strong> (it becomes grey after a click)<br \/> A new category Favorites shows in the left sidebar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Keep clicking<\/strong> until all your contacts are on the left<\/p>\n<p>Not the fanciest solution, but it works.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no_float\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/skype-favorites.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now the dial pad windows pops up automatically every time I open Skype, but I&#8217;m not giving up on new UI yet \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new version of Skype for OS X (5+) received a lot of negative comments from users.&nbsp;It is getting better but I was still missing to see all my contacts at once. I know it is possible to open the Contacts monitor, but that is a separate always-on-the-top window. Instead I wanted to see all&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}