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There's an issue with an Alpha Release of Ubuntu, what should I do?

Hello All, Here is my question. I have installed Natty Narwhal, and Installed Skype from Skype site. When i open the Skype, I have selected keep in launcher option.

Here is the real problem. When i Close skype window, and Click on the Skype icon in Unity Panel, its opening new instance, and there is not way to get the Old instance back. As its not adding the System Tray icon also.

Can some one help, whether this is a bug ?

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How on earth did this get closed as a duplicate question? – HDave May 2 '11 at 4:28
@HDave I believe this was closed because Natty was very young at the time this question was asked so a lot of questions were getting munged into that "what should I do?" thread. Because this is so old and on an alpha version of Ubuntu, I'm not going to reopen it. If you have a similar issue, please start a new question. – Oli♦ May 2 '11 at 8:12

marked as duplicate by fluteflute, karthick87, Jorge Castro, Marco Ceppi♦ Dec 25 '10 at 22:46

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Closing Skype will put it into the notification area, which will no longer be supported in Ubuntu 11.04. As a workaround, you can minimize the application instead. Note that this will affect all applications that minimize to the old notification area (while not offering an application indicator alternative).

Here's a related bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/687724

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This is the most common use case that I can think for the notification area. Ubuntu should consider it, lobby skype if necessary ;-) – tutuca Dec 25 '10 at 11:34
It would make sense to add Skype to the messages/me indicator. Don't know if that's possible due to the proprietary nature of Skype. – htorque Dec 25 '10 at 12:04
why not just use skypekit and give us something useful? if it's opensource millions of us would want to contribute. – RolandiXor♦ Dec 25 '10 at 13:03
downvoting is a bit dumb on answers like this. – RolandiXor♦ Dec 25 '10 at 13:04

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