thanks for that, i love this command already

working with it for a few days leaves a bad taste on this new command: the warning message to the user can't be switched off.
so, every time, a user starts his TV (with mcePhone for Skype) or other of our programs that use Skype in the background, the user gets this ugly warning message he needs to confirm to hide Skype UI.
and this dialog can't be controlled by remote control and is not displaying very well on TV screen.

so "develop games and other applications to use Skype without interruptions from the client by hiding and showing the Skype UI" is not very true.
the user gets interrupted in his normal workflow and need to confirm this dialog.

c'mon, there has to be a better solution to this!

and it does not hide the UI on outgoing calls. the skype client still pops up when the user starts a call trough another application using the Skype API

Thanks for reporting these comments Christoph. I will report the bug.

So, when is this coming to the Linux client then ?

not sure, tomchiv. there are too many things on the waiting list of linux client developers already...

I'm with cbuenger on this one. I'm building an app that will need to be able to run unattended AND should not interrupt or distract the user if attended.

The unattended part of the requirement means I cannot get the benefit of the new command because of the text box it throws up. Perhaps a new option on the 'Manage access control' dialogue to allow entering silent mode without a prompt?