You know, exiting Skype is even harder than exiting Vim

Atleast vim does as it’s told once you work out how to close it.

Totally is. 😞

sudo pkill -9 skype

Me: *hits X button*

Skype: *proceeds to minimize*

Me to Skype: “y’know, if I wanted to minimize, I’d have hit the - button...”😒

@dontbeevil i 100% agree with you
Skype is shit for hundreds of other reasons but not this one

Iirc you can even Set it in the settings that if you press X i'll close completely.

But i guess that's to Hard to do / find for a cummon user

@linuxxx that unlocked something on my brain

@dontbeevil Pidgin doesn't It closes everything haha

Try Skype for Business..

I highly doubt that, https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/...

@linuxxx what is the `-9` for ?

and even that more simplier then make their other messaging product works.

MS teams i fu-cking hate you!!

If you don't like the slack app you can always use the browser right and enable desktop notifications

@dontbeevil Come on, its really bad product.

it has really buggy (almost not usable) mobile app. the desktop one keep freezing, delay notifications and really lame UI.

[last one is subjective i know]

I'm using MS visual code on daily basis, so no open bills with MS.

@sheepz Visual Studio Code is not a Microsoft Product. Skype is. I use VS code everyday but I avoid visual studio. It's more like a free software that is more open source geared.

@thremedy still doesn't change the fact that teams is half baked software

@dontbeevil yeah, you are right. Teams is awesome. You are awesome. Have a awesome (like you) day :)

@8bits It forces the process termination :)

@irene I can’t speak for everyone on the “other side” but my complaint was much more referring to unwanted behavior than difficulty in closing an app.

I don’t actually use Skype that often but it opens on restart. The first time I noticed the new behavior of minimizing/running in background when you hit “X” I was surprised because to me it seemed like unnecessary functionality. Every now and then I still hit the X expecting it to close, lol. It’s just an inconvenience not the end of the world.

I’m no exception when it comes to saying silly things or doing silly things but I don’t believe this is one of them so I needed to clarify.

@dontbeevil I don’t use slack desktop. What’s the expected behavior?

@dontbeevil okay... well, my complaint wasn’t about whether or not it opened on startup. just what I consider unnecessary behavior when you hit the ‘X’ button.

But I can see how annoying it would be to have an app open on startup even after disabling that option.

I have a batch script for killing it. Aliases “taskkill /f /im Skype.exe”

what makes skype a jerk? Even when logged off the close button is really useless. File > close is also useless. Oh look it's hidden on the system tray

what makes skype a jerk? Even when logged off the close button is really useless. File > close is also useless. Oh look it's hidden on the system tray

@dontbeevil IM apps have poop logic

In Yahoo! Messenger (RIP Yahoo! Messenger!:'( ), under the File menu you can either choose close or exit.

Left Skype because it used to freeze on my old Win7 machine. I could not close this shitty app AT ALL.

The X didn't respond. Same goes for right-click and exit on the Skype icon. Fired up taskmanager with admin rights: close the application (or the according process structure) would do exactly nothing. I even tryed taskkill -f in admin cmd. No fckn chance to get rid of this window. Got the feeling that Skype merged with the kernel...

One day i finally uninstalled it and never used it ever since.

Worst is OneDrive. Not quittable by design, comes and starts with Windows.

Im so lucky I use vim on Linux. Definitely.

@dontbeevil since when? I had to edit the registry abt 4 months ago to get rid of it.

Recently my workplace forced Outlook and Skype onto us. To minimise Outlook into tray, I have to use the minimise button. Skype goes into the window bar then. To minimise Skype into the tray, I have to click the close button. If I click the close button in Outlook, it exits. To exit Skype, I have to right-click the tray icon and select exiting there. In Outlook's tray icon context menu there is no exit option, I have to open and then close it. Why consistency if you can make every single option different? Ah, btw, minimising Outlook to the window bar is impossible.