If anyone cares to confirm this, here is what happens when I have voice mail.

Besides my whining about the interface and implementation in-between, these steps do lead to a genuine bug. (Given the side-speak and short response to my posts, it seems handling poor design choice and inconveniencing the user isn't top priority - unlike most Mac software projects... But, I digress.)

1) Launch Skype
2) Click the "Show missed events" button (voicemail)...

BUG #1 - Firstly, stop putting a different button in the same position; that's insane. I had to hover over the button that would usually be the "Call History" button, in order to notice it's now the "Show missed events" button. I only figured the difference, because they have different transitions into the main window - also nuts - one slides in, the other fades in.

BUG #2 - The "missed events" panel is too short for the list of events within, and doesn't provide a scrollbar - at least with my scroll settings: show arrow at both ends. On top of this, you can't move the divider between the two panels (the second being the contact list).

3) Click "Show History"

BUG #3 - After both lists scroll down further, they "jump" history list. In other words - instead of the history list fading in, both the "missed events" and "contact list" panes move down, then "blip" into a shorter panel - the "call history" list. Thus, the transition is confusing and the issue.

Bug #4 - The mini-bar above all these panes is now gone; There are no longer controls to access my account information, available credits, etc. Clicking the "Show Contacts" button and reopening the main window, do not bring back the "mini-bar"; Reopening the application does.

No playback controls for voicemail.

Naturally, this is another gripe about your Skype client, and not a bug. There are no voicemail playback controls. All I get is a progress bar (indicating "what" I don't know), and the window closes itself after playback. Sure, I know it's the buffer progress, but the time-elapsed is so tiny, one would think the buffer were more important or indicative of the message's length; users aren't interested in that.

It's a digital file, so please put some kind of media wrapper around it so I don't have to redownload the message (see "cache")? What's the point of doing things digitally, if I need to listen to an entire message over and over just to repeat one portion - as in the days of analog telephony?

Some kind of voicemail manager is in order - at best. In the least, a unique interface to playback voicemails; this might also circumvent it's currently rude behavior, where the window closes itself when the voicemail is done. The main reason this is nuts, is that the user has no idea that the voicemail is done, because there is no time-remaining counter (just time elapsed). Action without announcement/indication IS rude.

Why don't you submit a new feature request in Jira, pointing these out? It's the best way to be heard by the developing team.

Will do.