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So the guy tried every Linux hack he could think of to prevent Skype from starting to no success. Until another user pointed out that there is an autostart chec

So the guy tried every Linux hack he could think of to prevent Skype from starting to no success. Until another user pointed out that there is an autostart checkbox in the options tab. Marvelous.

DoYouEvenLFTR 7y ago
I have found the new Skype UI to be unbearably bad. I can't navigate it to save my own life. It's quite possible he just overlooked it.
rumanator 7y ago
If a software doesn't use standard features tondo standard stuff, and in the end forces users to go through wild goose chases, then obviously there is a problem with the software.
- jbob2000 7y ago
  Putting settings in a settings menu is non-standard? It takes two seconds to click the menu and check.
  - jorams 7y ago
    The thing that is non-standard is the fact that it's a setting at all. It's not up to the application to decide when it should start, it's up to the system. And it should most definitely not override the settings of the system.
    - perl4ever 7y ago
      This is the sort of thing that's typical since time immemorial of software running on an OS that isn't its "preferred" choice.
  - rumanator 7y ago
    > Putting settings in a settings menu is non-standard? It's completely irrelevant if a setting is made available through a menu or a text file or a registry entry,and it's disingenuous to miss the point like that. The point is that picking which application is launched at startup is a basic feature offered by any operating system, and thus it is a feature with clearly defined and common and standard and discoverable and trustable interfaces. If you intentionally avoid all that and stop users from using standard functionalities to handle standard usecases and instead force-feed them custom hacks and tricks like this, you are creating a series of problems where there was none to begin with.

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So the guy tried every Linux hack he could think of to prevent Skype from starting to no success. Until another user pointed out that there is an autostart chec

by user5994461 7y ago

So the guy tried every Linux hack he could think of to prevent Skype from starting to no success. Until another user pointed out that there is an autostart checkbox in the options tab. Marvelous.

DoYouEvenLFTR 7y ago
I have found the new Skype UI to be unbearably bad. I can't navigate it to save my own life. It's quite possible he just overlooked it.
rumanator 7y ago
If a software doesn't use standard features tondo standard stuff, and in the end forces users to go through wild goose chases, then obviously there is a problem with the software.
- jbob2000 7y ago
  Putting settings in a settings menu is non-standard? It takes two seconds to click the menu and check.
  - jorams 7y ago
    The thing that is non-standard is the fact that it's a setting at all. It's not up to the application to decide when it should start, it's up to the system. And it should most definitely not override the settings of the system.
    - perl4ever 7y ago
      This is the sort of thing that's typical since time immemorial of software running on an OS that isn't its "preferred" choice.
  - rumanator 7y ago
    > Putting settings in a settings menu is non-standard? It's completely irrelevant if a setting is made available through a menu or a text file or a registry entry,and it's disingenuous to miss the point like that. The point is that picking which application is launched at startup is a basic feature offered by any operating system, and thus it is a feature with clearly defined and common and standard and discoverable and trustable interfaces. If you intentionally avoid all that and stop users from using standard functionalities to handle standard usecases and instead force-feed them custom hacks and tricks like this, you are creating a series of problems where there was none to begin with.