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Temptation of Saint Anthony

Temptation

So the story goes: One night, Anthony the Great was faced with great temptations. Lucifier, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Martyrs, the Magicians, the Pagan Gods, Science, Lust and Death and the Monsters came out to stray him from his belief that isolation is the truest form of worship. And of course, our persistent protagonist survived all temptations and came out to be the greatest.

And somehow the story inspired and is translated into a technological commodity such as a Trillian skin. You are now the protagonist and have to survive from all these temptations, as angels and devils are in constant conflict on your very Contact List. Slay the devil with the sword in 90's-style violence. And which friend to trust and not trust? (Ok, that's a long stretch.) Wait, and if Science is one of the temptations, should you just ditch your computer all together and become Amish?

Nevertheless, here it is, the skin, appropriate to the atmosphere of Halloween: a pagan holiday that is in constant (now non-existent in the modern world) conflict with All Hallow's Eve.

Here are the steps to install this piece of holy parable/blasphemy on your Trillian desktop:

  1. Download skin from http://www.arkidect.com/files/Temptation-Build1.zip
  2. Extract to Trillian\skins folder, and it should form "Trillian\skins\Temptation of Saint Anthony" by itself without you creating a folder.
  3. Go to Trillian Astra Preferences -> Skins -> Custom Windows
  4. Select "Temptation of Saint Anthony" from the list. Very tempting, huh?
  5. Click "Apply Skin" at the bottom.

Important Note: This skin works for Trillian Astra only. To get the functions you normally get from the menus, you can right-click on the contact list window, or right click on the Trillian system tray icon.

Now, here's the hint, grab the sword and slay the demon!

Happy Halloween!!

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3 Comments:

Blogger Derek said...

I'm having a issue where your mouse isn't lining up with the contact list. When I mouse over the list the highlighting is on the contact below my mouse....yet the pop-over window is for the person I'm hovering over. And if I double click a contact I get the one that is below (that is getting highlighted)

31/10/07 10:28

 
Blogger Rick said...

Same problem here. The highlighted contact is about 2-3 contacts down from the mouse cursor.

31/10/07 17:04

 
Blogger Morgan said...

I'm having the same issue.
But aside from that this skin is unbelievable, so happy you decided to share it with us. Completely original concept, great work!

1/11/07 16:33

 

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