Not exactly a feat in design, but a feat in code optimization.
This skin was made as a proof of concept long time ago, when I designed the Custom Windows feature. As skins get more and more complex (Trillian Cordonata is 700+KB of hand code), the goal is to create a new subsystem that allows creation of skin in the least amount of code possible.
The solution is to have a base skin that encompasses everything that needs to be skinned, and to allow major parts of the skin (e.g. Contact List, Chat Windows) to be swap-able. It is unprecedented in any skinning engines in the world, as Trillian slowly becomes highly intricate and increasingly complex.
Originally based on Stixe, Custom Windows allow creation of skins that is semi-dependent on the base skin. The result is the ability for users to mix and match bits and parts of a skin, and the ability for skinners to easily create a skin as a weekend project.
“A Good Skin” contains around 20 lines of code, and only take an hour to bash out the graphics and codes.
Comparing the months and years spent on Trillian Cordonata, this is quite a feat.
You can download the skin here for a test drive.
loving it!
Hi, is there a new version of this nice one available? Cause it looks different on the new trillian.im site
Could someone explain how to add this as a skin in Astra? I downloaded the files and extracted the folder into the skins directory but it doesn’t show up
is there any posibility to turn the WHITE bar @ my mail & my contacts to the background color?
it’s white, … and this is not stylish!
Hover over buddy icons will no longer display a popup box showing a magnified picture of the buddy icon and respective service/user capabilities such as webcam, talk,text, etc….
Trillian 4.1 Build 23 Pro broke this capability. Also, whil you are at it, could you please also add the feature (mentioned above my post by rikai? It looks like that request was ignored. That WHITE bad showing “My Contact” is not necessary. It just takes up valuable desktop real estate for something that we already know.
I just hope my request doesnt get ignored as well. There are people who actually use this addon.
Thanks,
MKANET