Shoutbox

Well vista skins is something I have not touched in a while now and many people are wondering if Windows Aero Messenger and Vista Live Messenger will ever be upgraded.

Well this is just a post to say that construction is well under way and the new update is something that will excite. I will be going at this skin solo as Stianu89 is now on a Macbook and can't really help with the update of Vista Live Messenger.

Anyway it will all fall under Windows Aero Messenger 2. The update will be really different to the original skin. How different? Well for starters there is no default theme (well there sort of is but meh).

Users will be able to pick pretty much every aspect of how they want their skin to look, from frame style right up to buddy color and pearl types.

Now for a small demonstration:



The first is a screen shot of the Aero Dark theme. Nothing new right? Well lets mix things up a bit with some user settings:



So I went into the options panel and changed two settings which has caused the skin to change slightly. This is what I mean by a theme generator, there will be a large amount of variation that a user can make. The beauty of this system will be that people can mix and match themes and can also easily switch from Windows Aero Messenger to Vista Live Messenger.

Well I'll finish this up by putting screen shot of the options panel so far. This is nowhere near final so you haven't seen nothing yet.




Remember this is FAR FROM FINISHED, so yeah keep that in mind