You can download and install the Skype app for your Windows 10 PC from this link, or you can click on the below link. Microsoft also made it available for the Whiteboard app. But unlike Skype, the new icon for Photos app was widely available. So, Skype users on Windows 10 is getting it a bit late.Ī couple of days ago, Microsoft rolled out the new icon to Photos app for Windows 10.
The new Fluent Design-based icon for Skype was first rolled out to Android users, and a few days later, Skype for iOS received a similar treatment too. Actually, it's very likely that some users won't. Besides, Microsoft also updated the Skype live tile - the updated live tile area now matches your choice of Dark or Light mode. Skype is a now very old brand, and it's probably a good thing that the new icon will remain instantly recognisable by the majority of the userbase. If you’re an Insider, only then you’ll be able to get the latest icon. The latest app that got the new icon is Skype for Windows 10, though it’s not available for everyone at this moment.
To install, exit Skype if it is running and then open a terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T,Īnd type/paste the below to install the pasted profile into your apparmor profilesĭirectory. Download Skype Transparent PNG, Skype icon, Free images Download Transparent PNG Logos. Please see here for a more complete Skype AppArmor profile that you can use if you want to secure Skype further. WARNING: This profile DOES NOT provide any other kind of security - Skype will run normally. Lines 24-25 are the bits that matter to us. It's enabled by default in Ubuntu.Īn example profile for Skype is included in the app-armor profiles I have modified that ONLY to achieve our goal of disabling the panel icon - other security features have been removed. A complete set of icons for use in web design and apps, consisting of 320+. Highly recommended: Use apparmor to prevent Skype from loading sni-qtĪppArmor is a security framework built into the Linux kernel which sets permissionsįor what a program can and cannot access. That can be done in one of two ways: a civilized way and a brute-force bash-hackerġ. usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/systemtrayicon/libsni-qt.soĪ guaranteed way to remove the Skype icon while leaving sni-qt available for otherĪpps to use is to prevent Skype from loading these shared libraries. Sni-qt is provided by these shared libraries: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/systemtrayicon/libsni-qt.so Installing the Skype-provided deb is not a solution all the Ubuntu version does is bundle the same Skype deb but make sni-qt a dependency to enable the icon.Ī simple conf-file tweak or installing/removing a package isn't going to do it, we need.If you don't care about sni-qt, removing the icon is as simple as doing apt-get.Removing the Skype panel icon in 12.04 without removing sni-qt