For All Those Who Miss The Old Layout After Upgrad...

So yeah, I feel your pain but I've found a kind of workaround that will give you some of the missing layout features you miss from the previous versions of Skype, including the compact view and opening chats in new windows.
To do so, follow these steps.
Log into Skype, (obviously).
On the page that appears click VIEW.
Then click on SPLIT WINDOW.
Then close the second window that appears.
Please be sure to tell anyone you know about this topic and to reply to keep others aware of the workaround.
It should also be noted that you'll still be running 6.21 or 6.22, so any changes to the client itself will still be in effect and some of the minor cosmetic changes, (such as borders and colour schemed), will still be present too, but fundamentally it will look and work like previous versions.
Admin's: please feel free to pin this topic if a great deal of people find it helpful, I definately think that others would be happy with this help.
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There's also a really useful blog article that summarizes how you can tweak the new layout: http://blogs.skype.com/2014/11/13/getting-to-grips-with-the-2014-skype-layout/
NanaTeppler wrote:
I just upgraded to version 6.22.0.107. My chat window for IMs now has blue text on a lighter blue background. Now some of us are old and decrepit and find this difficult to see. Is there a way to change the chat area text back to black on a white background?
Currently there's no option to deactivate the blue chat bubble background, but we've heard the feedback from quite a few users and are looking into how we can improve the readability.
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