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Customization for hotkeys and shortcuts

Once again, like in Skype 7, which can both change global hotkeys and local shortcuts.

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  • skramer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes for the love of god, please do this! Skype's lack of customisable hotkey is a totally inane illogical set-up. Hot keys should be customisable and/or functionality to be switched off.

    Right now in Mac, the hotkey for Answering a call is the Space Bar. This is a nightmare. You intend to finish typing the line of the email you're writing and you can't be cause the Space Bar answers the call before you're ready.

  • Artem commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Sometimes need to show another screen in demonstration and now you need to open skype from tray and make 4-5 click, it will be better to change it by hotkeys (for first,second, third screen)

  • Daniel K commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    What the... Are you seriously assigning Ctrl+M and Ctrl+E as global hotkeys?! This simple type of combination is has local functionality in thousands of programs. For example, my text editor and my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) both use both of these shortcuts. I can't believe a company such as microsoft did not realize that global hotkeys need to be a bit less common. My old one for mute was Ctrl+Shift+Alt+M. Worked like a charm and it's actually much easier to use than it looks. Please, get some sense or even better, make global hotkeys customizable. Otherwise there are going to be conflicts, resulting in complaints.

  • Ser-volk commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    we do not need the global hotkeys. We need the customizable hotkeys. Everyone has owns preferences. So please make it as it was in v.7. And yes, it is still better/has more functions as in v.8, so it was not the improvement from MS.

  • John Holt commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As of right now, the Global Hotkeys require skype to be pulled up in order to work. I want them to work without having skype up. It is very hard to game AND mute your microphone on a skype call when I have to minimize the game, click on skype, THEN CTRL+M. However, at that point I might as well just click the mute button! THERE IS NO POINT if doesnt work when not being focused on.

  • Rav commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    just bring back hotkeys and snapshots. simple. why make fancy UI and things we dont need and get rid of useful features

  • Gromesha commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Return the ability to customize the hot keys, I can not put the activation of the microphone on the button during a call. And everyone is forced to listen to how my cat wants a cat.

  • uscq commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why do I can not customization for hotkeys and shortcuts by myself instead of customization by Skype? Sorry for complainant.

  • Marc Su. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It has always been there, you took it out, and now it is ... coming soon .. Disgraceful!

  • Maciej Sulecki commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Answering calls with custom shortcuts would be VERY usefull for example for users that have laptops with extraordinary buttons or just everyone that wants to answer calls with some keyboard shortcut

  • Chris Gravell commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Won't be easy to do this if they're only programming once and building that for each platform since global hotkeys are hard to implement on mobiles and tablets.

  • June Fallen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please, please, please bring back configurable hotkeys! Without it, I find this app frustrating and extremely annoying. You will start to lose more and more users if you keep updating to inferior versions of software. Wish you hadn't forced me to update to the new version of Skype :( Might have to look for an alternative solution, as the new Skype is rubbish.

  • Ser-volk commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    customizable hotkey: especially "Focus on skype" which is now only in hotkeys for Mac and not for Windows.
    It was so comfy to open/hide skype. Please customizable!

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