Packaging Skype 6.0 with custom setting

[karthikeyan_mac]

Hi,

Has anyone tried packaging Skype with custom settings?

We are trying to package Skype 6.14(334) with custom settings. We require to disable automatic update, welcome screen. I manually unchecked the "Always keep Skype up to date" and deleted the com.skype.skype.plist and relaunched the sykpe but still the option is unchecked. So I don't think com.skype.skype.plist store those value to suppress update and first welcome screen. Please provide your inputs to package this app.

Thanks & Regards,
Karthikeyan

[Chris]

Hi,

we're managing com.skype.skype.plist with MCX which has been working fine so far,
can look up to the keys tomorrow.
I could imagine Mavericks preference-caching got in your way during testing...

[karthikeyan_mac]

Thanks Chris.

Please post the keys you are using in MCX. I will try to include it and will also work on Mavericks preference caching.

[Chris]

Apply Setting To: User Level At Every Login
Domain: ~/Library/Preferences/com.skype.skype
Keys:
SKAllowStealthUpgrade - false
SKDisableWelcomeTour - true
SKShowSilentUpgradeNotice - false
SKShowWelcomeTour - false
SKSilentUpgradeNoticeShown - true

Hope this helps

[Chris]

So, apparently something has changed.
Using the keys above I'm now getting this using Skype 6.15:

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"Always keep Skype up to date" is properly UNchecked in the Preferences.
Does anyone have a clue how to get rid of this?

[Kumarasinghe]

Did anyone find a fix for this pop-up issue?

Thanks

[calumhunter]

fseventer might help you track down what file is modified when you uncheck the check for updates button. that way atleast you can find where the preference is stored, then you can go about capturing and deploying that setting

[Kumarasinghe]

Anyone's got new Skype packaged to disable those Pop-ups?
Or turn on silent updates to make it self upgrade without asking standard users to authenticate upon updating it?

[RobertHammen]

Use Composer's "Monitor File System Changes" to see what preference files are touched when these options are selected. Like fseventer but you likely already have this on your system.

[Kumarasinghe]

Thanks. I know what files are getting changed and they have changed the update mechanism that you can disable pop-ups. I'm looking for anyone who managed to get rid of those pop-ups.

[calumhunter]

can you get rid of the pop ups using the GUI?
Find what checkbox or whatever is required to do that, then note which files changed. these would be the files you need to parse to find the changes, or package up these files to deploy.
Im not sure what else your after?

[Kumarasinghe]

@calumhunter
No can't get rid of it using GUI. See the posts made by @Chris.
I have packaged it before and disabled the updates but new Skype changed the way it behaves.
Thanks for your input but I'll need to find a custom solution for this I guess.

[Kumarasinghe]

This was happening when you use the Skype app for OS X 10.8 on a OS X 10.9 computer.