Skype 5 Beta for Mac arrived earlier today. I like the unified one-window concept and group video calls. But I and almost the rest of my Twitter stream think there’s too much whitespace in certain areas, the instant messaging chat, for example.

The thing is, the messaging area uses Webkit and therefore CSS to style the messages. You can change style by going to the Skype preferences > Messaging > Style. Custom styles live in ~/Library/Application Support/Skype/ChatStyles, and are in the .SkypeChatStyle format (basically a package consisting of CSS, HTML and JS files).

To the point of this post: Andy Graulund has created a minimal style for Skype 5 beta, Panamerica Mini. Download and put in the folder I mentioned above, and chose the style from the Preferences.