You are right, the details are debatable. What I really want is a handful toggle switches to configure the behaviour to my liking - which may very well change,

You are right, the details are debatable. What I really want is a handful toggle switches to configure the behaviour to my liking - which may very well change, e.g. during a vacation. It's not exactly rocket science and I sometimes wonder what those skype engineers are doing all day. ;-) I haven't noticed any functional advancement in ~3 years. Only some minor GUI polishing.