Skype 7.0 not using Windows scroll wheel settings

Exactly what it says on the tin.  In the mouse options for Windows, you can set your mousewheel to scroll a given number of lines per "tick" of the wheel.  The default is three lines per tick, but many users increase this (personally, I use 6).  Normally, this affects virtually anything with a scroll bar including system windows, web browsers, text editors, and previous versions of Skype.  Since updating to Skype 7.0 this behavior is no longer present, causing Skype windows to scroll at roughly one line per tick rather than the number set in Windows.  It isn't an enormous usability issue, but it feels like scrolling through molassas (Skype windows scroll at roughly 1/6 the rate of others for me, and each scrolling motion moves me only one or two messages either way), is very annoying, and throws off the seamless nature of the Windows UI. Neither restarting Skype nor altering the setting have caused it to pick up on it, which suggests to me that Skype is simply ignoring it rather than this being an individual issue or update hiccough.  This behavior is occurring on both Windows 7 (64) and Windows 8.1 (64).  Can someone confirm to me whether this behavior is universal for Skype 7.0, and if so whether there's any chance of it being fixed in the near future?  The new UI is pretty, but I'm not exactly in love with many of the design decisions (could the chat windows possibly have been less efficient in terms of space?) so if the scrolling's broken too I may just give up and go back to 6.x.

This is yet another example of Skype using custom controls which do not mimic the full behavior of the standard controls in Windows. This is something that Microsoft themselves warn developers not to do, and have done for years. It's almost as if Skype were a masterclass on how not to implement a portable, accessible user interface. Blog post here: http://moteprime.org/article.php?id=59

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